Antecedent days
covered by thick haze
leaves our lives without illumination.

Antecedent daze
marred by the shuttering vision
of brothers torn
by difference.

The magnification
multiplied by two hundred eighty
degrees that I currently twist,
forming a barrier.

12/10/2002

Author's Note: A piece of writing that should have been written a year earlier, but the dust still hadn't settled.

Posted on 03/30/2005
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