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The Rhetoric

  • March 23, 2020
  • 6:56 pm
  • New Orleans
we regret to announce/ our abundance/ threatens our community
clareharmon

Clare Harmon

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It is with

an abundance

out of

abundance

of caution

with respect

to abundance

to our community

out of concern

for abundance

with attention

to our abundance

to protect

our abundance

in accordance of

in deference to

in alignment with

recommendations

that are

in accordance of

official decree          

in hopes of

safeguarding

our abundance

we regret to announce

our abundance

threatens our community

we regret to announce

our abundance

is a threat

to our community.

 


 

Clare Harmon
Clare Harmon is a poet and music educator. Harmon's work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Barzakh, Poetry Northwest, Sycamore Review, New Delta Review, and Tammy. More can be found online at cargocollective.com/clareisapoet. Clare lives in the 7th Ward.

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One Response

  1. Kimi Kiviranna says:
    04/01/2020 at 8:24 PM

    Nice, Clare! Hope you are well!

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