Brother

John E Marks
Dec 2, 2020
Salvador Dali PORTRAIT OF MY DEAD BROTHER, 1963

Two days before he died,
At night, in the rain,
I shared a cigarette with my brother, Pete,
We talked of nothing, of everything,
I knew I loved him,
But not so much.

Death, he said to me, isn’t anything,
Nothing more than
Bird-song when you listen
Real close.

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John E Marks

I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can