Andrea Scarpino

Shift

Warry, shift.
—Walt Whitman’s last words

As in to layer
or stratify,

change direction,
emphasis, gears.

As in dress. As in
typewriter key.

Sooner or later,
you wrote,

delicate death.
As in the span

of a working day.
As in its ending.

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