To The Executioner
       

Your quickness is a kind

of love. As you administer

the incapacitating drugs,

you are the millisecond's

witness. You live

within the distance between

fingertip and glove as if

the absence of a fingerprint

were innocence. Still,

you alone know how

a kill can be redeemed:

Even the dead have dreams.

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from Hayden's Ferry Review
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