Poem
'The Art of the Fugue', a new poem by Stephen Edgar
by Stephen Edgar •
So, summoned by that call across the wide
And complicated city, pressed
And yet reluctant to arrive,
We found among the ranks of the distressed,
The sick, the stricken and the stupefied,
Her shocked, unconscious form in South Ward Five.
And then I turned aside.
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