Poem of the Day

"I'm afraid of death" by Kathleen Ossip I'm afraid of death because it inflates the definition of what a person is, or love, until they become the same, love, the beloved, immaterial. I'm afraid of death because it invents a different kind of time, a stopped clock that can't be reset, only repurchased, an antiquity. I'm afraid of death, the magician who makes vanish and who makes odd things appear in odd places--your name engraves itself on a stranger's chest in letters of char.