Tuesday, January 19, 2010

If There's a God


Image by Carl Sloan


If There's a God


If there's a god of amphetamine,
he's also the god of wrecked lives,
and it's only he who can explain
how my doctor father,
with the gift for healing strangers
and patients alike,
left so many
intimate dead in his wake.


Gregory Orr

Posted over on Valparaiso Poetry Review

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