Minor Chords
©Scott Schumaker

Minor chords

    those daggered notes
    that impale your heart

        their stems
       
              hung
                    with
                         rocks

        seeming to drag you down

exist instead so that in those black gaps of the clock
when the world’s pulse feels smothered by snowdrifts
and you cannot hear the footsteps of a single soul

        not even your own

you catch your breath suddenly as if
        hit
        by ice-cold water and realize,
              “I am not alone.”
 
 
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