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Time to Fall
by
Christopher Hivner
There is a sadness
that speaks our
names,
calls to us
in an ethereal
whisper
when the worst
has happened,
when the glass
walls
we erected
for protection
while dealing with
the world
have split into
shards
on the ground.
When we are bared
naked
to the teeth,
of everything we
fear,
that is the moment
of despair
that calls up
from the well
bottom,
the grief-pain
whose voice is our
own
sings to us
that the thread
we were holding
onto
has rotted
and it is time
to fall.
It is the sadness
that speaks our
name
because it has
known us
all our lives.
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Christopher Hivner writes from a small town in Pennsylvania
surrounded by books he intends to read if he becomes immortal and the echoes of
very loud music. His new book of poetry, The Air Around Us, has
been published by Cyberwit.net. Facebook: Christopher Hivner - Author, Twitter:
@Your_screams
KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic. She’s
played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket
weaving, and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified
herbalist, and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of calculus. Her creative efforts
have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the Net
in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart
Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once
for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s
had more than forty-five books published and has served as an editor for
several literary journals. Check out her latest short
fiction collection, An Orbit of Chairs: https://www.amazon.com/Orbit-Chairs-KJ-Hannah-Greenberg/dp/B0CWMMM73T Within its pages are two tales originally published
at Yellow Mama: "Alive Another Day" and "Light Notes."
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