“This Will Be The Last Time” by Ian Randall Wilson

A poem by Ian Randall Wilson (poetry, ‘02; fiction, ’16) appears in Topology Magazine:

This Will Be The Last Time

the cat lies on my lap while my father
is still alive. No use forgiving
rock for being rock or white clouds
always passing over or even
wind, its restless blow, but I can forgive
prayer and those bastard children

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