[10/13/26] Hadbawnik, David: Damage

knife | fork | book, paperback

Publication Date: October 13, 2026

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from the author of "Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems"

I used to care about things like sunsets / and politics and winning but now I / know it’s all bunk nobody wins nothing / is worth fighting for we’re plunged into this / struggle against our will we force ourselves / smaller and the little words carry us / forward on breath in time as song into / the gloomy airs of winter the ice gray / with devastation of skidding right off / having to wait for to beg for help not / being self-sufficient but opening / like a wound weeping puss and infection / to be buried at last but no to be / dug up born again whether we want to