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Seth Jani
Maybe the sickness came
to make me tender,
to equalize a heart enchanted
by its own aloofness.
Among the river stones
the sun was no longer
a streak of gold,
a resplendent eye.
It was a hard light
and I hurt among familiar things.
The only solution was to sit inside
the pattern and be ok. Whether they
were my birds or not, beautiful wings
kept rushing by.
Seth Jani lives in Seattle, WA and is the founder of Seven CirclePress (www.sevencirclepress.com). Their work has appeared in Chiron Review, The Comstock Review, Common Ground Review, Phantom Drift and Pretty Owl Poetry, among others. Their full-length collection, Night Fable, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2018. More about them and their work can be found at www.sethjani.com.