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Gerald Schwarz |
Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1958, Gerard Schwartz lives in West Irondequoit, New York. He is the author of Only Others Are: Poems, his first full-length collection (released by Legible Books, NY, NY, 2003)
When They Lost Him
in a freak accident
during football practice,
I thought does pain wedge
people apart? I believe it can.
who drives it in, making it wider?
there is no one. no counsel
can be levelled to the two,
split so, recessed back
in double hurt.
I only have to hear about
this to know the membrane
of pain, how fully engulfed
these two must be, how
overwhelmed
past all calamity
out past
their pacific front
where joy and loss
run as one.