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Polarized by Josh Daniel 

 

 

 

 

 



Durfee is 55 living in Detroit with is wife of 26 years. He has previously been published by Island Grove Press and White Pelican Journal and was an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Clarity of Night competition. Durfee is a journeyman poet who has been writing in that form for 40 years.  His second Chapbook, STINK Poetry and Prose of Detroit 2005-2009, is available from the author at  detstink@gmail.com



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Durfee

Small and fading middle voices;
disgraced to silence for not having
anything left to own,
giving up, swallowing the water.
 
It is easier to drown
and not see the light anymore
than it is to see what can’t be reached.
 
And we who have house and home
clear our closets to dress them in a burial suit,
so when they are lowered into our dry ground,
we can say “at least they had a nice set
of (used) clothes.”

 

 


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