Hosanna
Temple Cone
“There is no loneliness like theirs.”
—James Wright
Nothing to hosanna,
you will be buried
Cold. Only the living
go on living.
Worship the wind-hover
while it’s a-wing,
Let scything talons
fret the meadow grass.
 About Temple Cone Temple Cone’s fifth chapbook of poetry, Eurydice & Orpheus, is due out from Finishing Line Press this year. He is an assistant professor of English at the US Naval Academy and lives in Annapolis with his wife and daughter. |
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