“A Litany and Song” by Leslie Contreras Schwartz (poetry, ’11)

A poem by Leslie Contreras Schwartz (poetry, 11) appears in Hermeneutic Chaos Journal:

 

A   L I T A N Y   A N D   S O N G

Outside
The birds sound
Like muffled cries

How many times
Can things be taken?

In the same breath
With viva la vida, viva

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