Steve Deutsch

After,

 

we took

the long way

home.

 

As if such

a simple act

might flummox fate.

 

We are

a good people.

We bury our dead

 

and help

the maimed

to cross the road.

 

Yet the image

persists.

One careless step

 

along

the poorly

cobbled avenue,

 

and Atropos

snips

the thread.

 

Steve Deutsch

Steve Deutsch is the poetry editor of Centered Magazine and was the first poet in residence at the Bellefonte Art Museum. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Prize multiple times. He has six volumes of Poetry. One, Brooklyn, won the Sinclair Poetry Prize.