Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards

2023 Longlist Announcement

Wandering Jew

I assure you, my friend, as you don’t believe me,

it’s you the unknown soldier who died in the mud

and the old whore who raised her skirt

            for a yogurt,

revealing the whole tumbled Paradise

and Jesus,

and Lenin

you,

the informer who threw a coin in the tin

          of the beggar

you the martyr who died although the ghost of

your vanity smiled ironically over you and your

innumerable transformations through time.

And always that strange sense that urged you

to achieve the greatest acts or die.

And you bowed your head in the night

and you cried.

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