Magdalene Poem

John Taggart

 
Love enters the body
enters
almost
almost completely breaks and enters into the body
already beaten and broken
peaceful if breaking if breaking
and entering the already broken is peaceful
untouchable fortunately
untouchable.
 
From Is Music by John Taggart. Copyright © 2010 by John Taggart. Used by permission of the Copper Canyon Press.

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