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bRuce mcRae
Each Fear Contains a Wish
A bone needle and catgut thread. Sewing a new shirt in the dark,
a ghost-shirt for these iron ages, leaning toward a single flame
so I might hear its indelicate whisper.
A night quiet as a doll’s house,
a full moon stalking the forests, the crow on the roof another omen to be added to the devil’s care, each star a stitch dropped
in the cold’s rough fabric.
McRae, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over 1,400 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle, and the North American Review. His books are The So-Called Sonnets (Silenced Press); An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy (Cawing Crow Press); Like As If (Pski’s Porch); and Hearsay (The Poet’s Haven).
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