Their World
In the world of the dead
the sun sets every morning;
the pious pray to shadows
they call light;
the successful live in a prison
of their success;
the rich live long lives
in the comfort of their self-love.
And the Arbiter,
who lives to correct everyone else?
Like a stopped clock,
twice a day he’s correct.
Twice.
At most …
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David Salner’s debut novel is A Place to Hide (Apprentice House, 2021) and his fourth poetry collection is The Stillness of Certain Valleys (Broadstone Books, 2019). He worked as iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, and now librarian. His writing has appeared in Threepenny Review and Ploughshares. Innisfree Poetry Journal 33 featured a retrospective of 25 poems drawn from his four books. https://www.innisfreepoetry.org/innisfree-33/a-closer-look-david-salner/
