Aubade to Self
morning’s gray filaments
pry the curtains
as I lie still
floating a prayer
for a scant of endurance,
compassion, generosity—
selfishly, of course
but for all of us
because despair is
a husk of resistance
it means we are all still
counting the casualties
it means the pain
remains tender
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Robbie Gamble (he/him) is the author of A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in Post Road, Sheila-Na-Gig, Whale Road Review, Salamander, and The Sun. He is the poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont.
If despair is a husk of resistance, then I am firmly in it.
Nice reframe of present mood. Ok, I’m up. Where’s the dam’ coffee? Grateful to have dam’ coffee.
Thank you!