Friday, August 29, 2025

Despair hopes you know__ By Merritt Waldon


Despair hopes you know .
I feel it in my heart 
The spot behind the bullet hole 
Shot by muses once when I was twelve 
Straight through to the meat
Spirit poem of this wild
Primal self
Inside 
Never wilting song
For Beauty's 
Despair
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Merritt Waldon is Southern Indiana poet who has been published in Road Dawgz, Sun Poetic Times,

The Brooklyn Rail, Be About It Zine, River Dog #1, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Americans & others anthology fourth edition, Crisis Chronicles, Cajun Mutt Press, Thye Rye Whiskey Review, and Fearless!.

At midnight Christmas night 2020, cajun mutt press released Oracles from a Strange Fire by Ron Whitehead & Merritt. He lives in Austin, Indiana.

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