Panic with her hair outspread

      Panic with her hair outspread
      Strode among the shocking dead
      All wounds and whispers as she choired
      Souls like mice to a humid, quilted mire
5     That pillows them up in one soft hush;
      In their dead eyes blazes a watery fire.
      This, though living minds and closing hearts deny,
      Is the right image of all our globed estate:
      Calcutta infants crawling gutted to the gate,
10    Upturned hands and open hearts denied.

 

From the collection "Miscellany"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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