human resilience
confounds,
offsets comic hopelessness
where unworldly conditions
remain under-reported
and sees survival instinct
rebirth,
on the distraction
of a single
raindrop’s pat.
Arrhythmic
By Geoffrey Aitken | 23 Jul 19
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