Fortitude

Key West Poet Laureate Kirby Congdon (Photo by Richard Watherwax)

Fortitude

Bravado came,
like hopefulness, on its knees
to give a name
to good fortunes received
that any body needs,
lifting life
by song or dance
beyond a world’s end
of bad dreams.

Kirby Congdon

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