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The Long Walk (Oskana Poetry and Poetics, 2) The Long Walk by Jan Zwicky
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“Because she was a woman
she'd been raped.
Because she was a woman
there was no excuse.
Because she was a woman
they dragged her to the pit.
You can hear the dull snap
as the bone breaks under flesh.”
Jan Zwicky, The Long Walk
“Where will my soul go
when it can't walk among them?
When the earth I have loved turns its back
and closes its eyes.

I will lie down, then, in the wreckage of meaning.
In the rot of the forest, the rot of the wind.
I will lie down in the shouting and silence,
the dust of you filling my mouth.”
Jan Zwicky, The Long Walk