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Mary Mackey

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_ In "Jerusalem," William Blake vowed to fight the 'dark Satanic
Mills' of early capitalism. Answering Blake, poet Mary Mackey
recognizes contemporary capitalism's failures, but vows to embrace
what's still good in life, not just belabor what's awful. _

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today
just for a moment
I forgot which wars
we were fighting
who had been shot
who had been slaughtered 
who was President
and how much of the arctic ice
cap had melted

on a branch above me
I saw a sparrow
who knew no history but her own
and for the space of two breaths
maybe less
I lay down my bow of burning gold
and broke my arrow of desire

_Poet Mary Mackey has published 9 books of poetry, most recently In
the Burning World. She is also a novelist and an award-winning
screenwriter. For many years she taught at California State
University, Sacramento, where she founded the Creative Writing Program
as well as the Women's Studies Program. You can find more about her at
marymackey.com. Proceeds from the sale of her book will go to
charity._

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