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Today's poem is by Victoria McArtor

Dark Skies Save Lives
       

of sea turtles

            hatching and touching through sand


            remember the labyrinth was first

intestines        and the shape was used

            to predict the future


reaching out to find landscape is

                        merely a projection

            of the inside

                        expanding


it's hard to know we're in darkness

until the bright breaks


            this was disorientation too

claws where the hands should be



Copyright © 2016 Victoria McArtor All rights reserved
from West Branch
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission

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