Was the Price You Paid

Was the Price You Paid

A Poem by Brett Hernan

The occasional waft

of sickly, sweet

decay

was the price

you paid

to kneel

and gaze

at the

spring sparrow

chick’s corpse,

a little longer.



© 2017 Brett Hernan


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Author

Brett Hernan
Brett Hernan

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia



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Low-resolution sample only. Born 1968. All of the images accompanying each of these written works are my own. (Except that one of the guy putting a flower into a soldier's rifle barrel!) more..

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