dean rader

THOSE WHO CANNOT ACT
Jane Hirshfield

“Those who act will suffer,
suffer into truth”--
What Aeschylus omitted:
those who cannot act will suffer too.

The sister banished into exile.
The unnamed dog
soon killed.

Even the bystanders vanish,
one by one,
peripheral, in pain unnoticed while

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