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  • Writer's pictureThe Red Wheelbarrow Poetry

The Distance

Larry Schwartz


It’s just a trick

of light


that plays on

you and me


a sleight of hand

that deals the dark


also daylight

brings


The flicker

keeps us


out of sync

in our antipodes


Featured on 6 May 2021

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