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Try to make sense of what happened when you were alive:
Where was there justice? How hot were the breezes in August?
Where were the altars? To whom was the sacrifice offered?
Who were the men you were punished for slandering? Which songs
Played at the feasts and the weddings? and who was forbidden to sing them?

Timothy E.G. Bartel

Timothy E.G. Bartel

Timothy E. G. Bartel is a poet and professor from California. He teaches writing at the College at Saint Constantine, and his forthcoming book is Aflame But Unconsumed: Poems (Kelsay Press, 2019).