Poem-A-Day: True Faith by Joseph Lease

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True Faith by Joseph Lease         1 Property is death: they had a body crammed in a mailbox and it was just a brown suit with bones sticking out--and fathers lost in blowing snow--and mothers drift in blowing leaves, and all the lies in any town--work was my salvation he said work was always    my         salvation           2 branches You Joy can          Scream         3 Ice and the river--"the desire to be normal is healthy": no, it isn't--can you imagine the death of the wind--can you remember the ghost of that voice--           4 Your         Kisses Your         Sky Your         Darkness Your         Sky         5 Lavender sky, sky like whiskey--the way, the way we live in bodies--lavender sky, sky like whiskey--and to your scattered bodies go--your dream inside your face, your night inside your morning--I'll try to glint like birds behind the rain--   Copyright © 2012 by Joseph Lease. Used with permission of the author. Poetry by Lease Testify November 16, 2012 Joseph Lease is the author of several books of poetry, including Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011) and Broken World (2007). Photo by Donna de la Perriere. Related Poems A True Poem by Lloyd Schwartz Believing in Iron by Yusef Komunyakaa It Was The Beginning Of Joy And The End Of Pain by Gillian Conoley Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.   Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.   Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010.  Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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