This piece was taken from the archives of the Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Library on Marian University's main campus. It was originally published in Volume 50, Number 2 by the 1991-1992 Fioretti students.
In an opposition of some kind.
That's where poetry can happen.
Between slime and sublimity,
between a howl and a hosanna.
A poem may be two armies met
upon a bridge. Competing
for anothr breath, one side
is marked for death.
Or two dancers waltzing round
a ballroom floor.
His mightier muscles and
her finer feet cooperate.
I'm trying, Reader, to survive
your liveliest artillery.
You try remembering one leads
and one must follow.
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