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Darryl Wellington

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington is a poet and social critic living in Santa Fe, NM. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Common Review, N+1 magazine, and New Politics. His poetry has appeared in Drumvoices, Chiron Review, Boston Review, Pedestal magazine, and elsewhere.

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Weekly Poem: A History of Faith

31. October 2013

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By Darryl Wellington

 

 

 

Man. Woman. Huddled. Crouched in a dark corner.
He hears scuttling roaches. Phantasmagoria. Demons. Pixies.
He hears Stygian depths downward.
“Listen carefully,” she says,
so gently, to calm a child in a schoolhouse of terrors
long before she purportedly stole from the apple tree...

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