Aurora Magazine 2019

Nonet: Morituri (inspired by a passage in the Grands-Chroniques of the Abbey of St. Denis, Paris)

Michael Angrosino

We have daily watched as neighbors fade, as friends depart, as loved ones fall.

But we, though nearly shattered, essay a brazen show

to mock our shadows.

Disowning dread, denying

doom, we

dance.

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