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Spadina Literary Review — edition 19 page 12
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Besides the Common Emptiness
by D.S. Martin
- Besides the common
- in us all
- either from the double helix
- of my genes before
- canal or more likely
- through childhood
- by tides like
- secretly creating
- beneath
- before the sink-hole
- The hollow holds
- a greater-than-normal
- to the full measure
- & so in me
- that burns with unquenchable
- emptiness born
- I have another of my own
- of my DNA the code
- I burst from the birth
- one slowly grown
- like a sea cave worn
- the washed-out earth
- a cavity
- the road
- swallows an SUV
- a hunger a desire
- susceptibility
- of your worth
- there's a fire
- love & loyalty
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