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“Pandora Then Heard a Small Voice”
“Don’t despair yet. I am Hope, Pandora!
Not a part of the mere world
-- now overcast with pox,
roiling, many-fingered evils
and flying carnivorous fauna and flora --
but here, safely curled
in your tiny, infinite box
exempt from the blackened air’s upheavals.
I am Hope, the unspendable coin
because to remain yours
I must remain virgin mystery
The escaped and inescapable ills
I’m too frail to join
on their flight to colonize all shores
I will recline, glinting, hinting while history
spins caterwauling over the hills.”
-- Mark O’Donnell
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