By Josh Dale
Everyone had an issue when
the Berlin Wall went up
boring down into the fragile earth
erecting oppression
down the line.
Here in PA, the frost ceases
around 3’-0” below grade
halfway to death is pretty much
a human once they are birthed
now if only to keep us breathing.
Josh Dale is a Temple University alum, bicyclist, beer enthusiast, and owner of the sweetest Bengal cat. His work has appeared in 48th Street Press, Huffington Post, Page & Spine, vox poetica, and others. He’s the founder and editor-in-chief of Thirty West Publishing House with two chapbooks and a poetry collection, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West 2016)
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