Two Poems by Edward L. Canavan

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[under wing]  

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untaken stock

low in the heart of matters

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still to rise

day in and out

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pulled

toward the wondering lust

of too long alone

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caught in the trap of mind

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rolling thru

the unwritten pages

of blank expression

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and the useless expectations

of things never known.

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[sorts of flight]

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undeemed pleasantries

swallowed like cloves

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away from inner circles

of pride’s wide smiles

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as bastions burn

in the lighthouse mind

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leaving every barren shore

littered with the gold of confusion.

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Edward L. Canavan is an American poet whose work has most recently been published in Spillwords, Edge of Humanity, and The Opiate. His second poetry collection entitled PROTEST and ISOLATION was released by Cyberwit Press in July 2020. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, he currently resides in North Hollywood, California, where he practices Buddhism and listens to Bad Brains.

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