Gone by Then

Gone then risen
 
Milk dawn gone then risen
 
Our ephemeral fawning done
 
Gone sanguine then risen in spell
 
High with your wrist while nihil busy
 
Unburrowing dice teams from sand figurines
 
Risen to swirl steam scooping passing seemingly
 
A kindred-ided up and up, born of dormant corners
 
Forms filial then filled          Goes mourn and swoon
 
Love have and love loom                    Union and risen

Copyright Credit: Harmony Holiday, “Gone by Then” from Negro League Baseball. Copyright © 2011 by Harmony Holiday. Reprinted by permission of Harmony Holiday.
Source: Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, 2011)