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Guest Post: Sorrow and Song, by Mark Bennion

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Listen to “Sorrow and Song” by Mark Bennion
Sariah
That morning you came to me
I saw the lamp arising in your beard,
a flash of iron and fire
wisping in your robes and hair
dreams full in your mouth like jamid
and your gait uneven on the hardest soil.
I thought I knew what you were about to say,
how sweat and sand [...]

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