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Chapter 3: Vespers Sung Quietly, With Mossy Tongue

By Joshua Daniel Edwin @thetoysofpeace ·

The body can process and possess the dark
(you are covered lightly in fine hairs) but the mind
won’t stop making metaphors

until you take its hammer and tongs away.
These are religious themes, they remind you
you’re one knot in the rope of time

and a slide over the gunwale is natural
as slumping in a chair. You’re driving,
not drunk yet, so you begin to wonder

who sails all these white boats in the harbor
instead of simply watching as they bob.
Regardless of the hour or the whiskey,

you’ll scratch your way back into your body
with the morning, assuming you don’t succumb
to fever dreams and shed your claws in sleep.

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Joshua Daniel Edwin

Joshua Daniel Edwin’s poetry appears in a variety of publications in print and online. His translations of Dagmara Kraus' poetry were awarded a 2012 PEN Translation Fund Grant and an ALTA Travel Fellowship and will appear in a chapbook published by Argos Books. He is a member of the editorial board for the magazine Circumference: Poetry in Translation and lives in Brooklyn.

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