Brett Harrington
We never part
from what
we bury:
we become
the absence
we return to.
Listen. Listen.
The gate
aches open.
Listen. Listen.
Those are
your steps
splinter the ice-
glazed sod.
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Brett Harrington’s previous or forthcoming publications include Psaltery & Lyre, Burningword, Ligeia, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Shore, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2012 Best of the Net award and lives in the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon.