{"id":1745,"date":"2021-07-17T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=1745"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:10:52","slug":"existential","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/existential\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Existential<\/strong><\/div>\n
Lee Landau<\/div>\n

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No plagues rain down on us, no sign<\/div>\n
of a personal god anywhere, and<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

instead of standing to<\/div>\n
daven<\/div>\n
my love\u2019s<\/div>\n
snores reach God\u2019s ear<\/div>\n
like sound as an organ donation<\/div>\n
where I stare and laugh again.<\/div>\n
I want an easy death<\/div>\n

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in my sleep, a fatal heart attack.<\/div>\n
no personal<\/div>\n
God will ever intervene, no final<\/div>\n
decisions about heaven or hell.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Just me reborn as a mound<\/div>\n
of ivy set on running up<\/div>\n
around the roof of my old home\u2013<\/div>\n
picture a stucco, two-story,<\/div>\n
1952 house covered\u2013<\/div>\n

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daring anyone to root out<\/div>\n
its existential growth,<\/div>\n
folded where the dead<\/div>\n
gather, its original color<\/div>\n
defaced, framed<\/div>\n
now in ivy\u2019s hunter green and hardy,<\/div>\n
determined, only<\/div>\n
uncertain about the next life.<\/div>\n


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Lee Landau<\/strong> has been a finalist in four poetry contests. Her work has been published in: Wisconsin Review, Reed Magazine, New Millennium Writings, Poetica, Common Grounds to name a few. By submission-only she has workshopped Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Dan Halpern, Tom Lux, Dara Weir.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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