Run from your now: poems
Poésie
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Résumé
A good poet, to me, is either witness or magician. Ben Westlie is both. These poems are proof of a life hard-won, of living, breathing things, of birds of dreams and nightmares, of soothing hands and hard slaps. These poems… are spells. They commune with the dead, with missing people's shadows and of past versions of ourselves we thought we burned or buried, none of whom are truly lost. Here is a story that keeps repeating, a chanting for the lonely, the othered, the weak, the proud, the strong, the suffering, and the survivor. Here is all of us at one time or another, and maybe all of us still. Be careful, Reader. Ben Westlie is soon to show you the power of poetry