After a Line by Robert Bly

Taking the hands of someone you love
You enter another country
Where, day-by-day, scars become valleys,
Hills are creviced with loneliness,
And every bird knows silence as well as song.

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Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee. He has published in numerous magazines, large and small, throughout the country. His many poetry collections include: Leftover Distances (Luchador), Parades (Alien Buddha), Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse), and Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog.)