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Section 6

Mark Danowsky


Mark Danowsky
 
Not Taken
 
Robbie Tolan lived to tell
and that has made all the difference.

-Criminal, Episode 18: 695BGK
 
Roads on life’s long walk
could be infinite
if we were equal opportunity travelers
 
Is time an arrow or a tree
that cracks with each return?
Who can say
 
the best path stretches
we can only maintain
no specters appear on our horizon
 
 
 
Mark Danowsky is a poet. His poems have appeared in Alba, Cordite, Grey Sparrow, The Lake, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Shot Glass Journal, The New Verse News, Third Wednesday and elsewhere. Mark is originally from the Philadelphia area, but currently resides in North-Central West Virginia. He works for a private detective agency and is Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
 

 

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