upstate medical university center for bioethics and humanities

Volume 5, 2005

Anodyne

Bruce Bennett

To live from day to day
with what each day will bring
won't make pain go away.
It will not do a thing

For grief that chills the bone
or tremors of distress
that case the heart in stone.
Yet one can murmur, yes .

Statuary

Bruce Bennett

Angels and saints are promising release,
arms and eyes heavenward. The wind is cold;
the sky is dark. This argument is old,
but either way, there's silence here, and peace.

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