Getting Out

David Radavich

 

                                                              Who can find

                                                                a way out

                                                                of this world,

 

                                                                its tangles,

                                                                its wrong turns

                                                                and high walls,

 

                                                                threat of destruction

                                                                and only the sun

                                                                high and distant

                                                                like an absent god?

 

                                                                The body as

                                                                a kind of box

                                                                with no exit

 

                                                                but this string

                                                                of life

 

                                                                given us

                                                                to follow with

 

                                                                and claim air

                                                                that welcomes us

                                                                into the open

                                                                realm of possibilities.

 

 

 

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David Radavich’s latest narrative collection, America Abroad: An Epic of Discovery (2019) is a companion to his earlier America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007). Recent lyric collections are Middle-East Mezze (2011) and The Countries We Live In (2014). His plays have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe.