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Summer 2002
 
 

Why Are You / A System of Jets

Distant lightning chases the children from the field.
Who watches over the pages of blood?
In the storm the yearnings of a holy queen.
Or the event of a system of jets
the same four numbers over and over,
an ID, a password.
Soon you will want to be alone and unashamed.
Shaving the face or the legs in a quiet
morning only makes it worse.
Even in the event of a system of jets high above us
we are left with a mirror and the credo of the face.
People are expecting us; we would like to believe
we will do no harm.

 
     
  George Eklund, who teaches creative writing at Morehead State University, has published poems in Poetry Northwest, Hollins Critic, Bellingham Review, New York Quarterly, with others soon to appear in Sycamore Review, Wind, Quarterly West, North American Review, and elsewhere. He has received the Al Smith Fellowship in Poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council. His chapbook, The Sorrow of the King, is out of White Fields Press.  
 
 
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