Larry Levy Poems

They may have been raised with Sundays,
filed into candle-lit pews, chanting entreaties
to the Divine, confessing transgressions,
immersing in ablutions, receiving absolutions;
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"Savoir" and "connaître" wrote historian Walter Laqueur—

on one hand there's knowing the wall is beige
the floor scuffed, the kind of knowing without wonder
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Captive bears, exotic beasts,
sun on rocks, doze in moats.
Other predators storm the streets
in brown shirts and black coats,
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