Futures Come And Go
By Bruce McRae
April 15, 2023
April 15, 2023
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How much farther
into the darkness? asked the light. As the crow flies, how much farther goes the road into night? Under unfamiliar stars, beneath the hours’ red contempt, at the death of the mile -- how much longer must we carry one another’s burden? |
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been performed and broadcast globally.