CHANNELING JACKIE MCLEAN’S “PLIGHT” • by Benjamin C. Krause

With a solemn sigh I mourn my ambition
and sit shiva for my sense of self.
I try but fail to conjure their memory,
the cries of widows echoing in my ear.



Benjamin C. Krause is the author of Classifieds, erbacce-press 2010. He was recently selected as Featured Artist at Counterexample Poetics, and his poem “Scene from a Pharmacy” was selected for The Best of Foliate Oak 2009-10 edition. His writing has appeared in dozens of journals.

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Posted on July 17, 2010 in Literary
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4 Responses to “CHANNELING JACKIE MCLEAN’S “PLIGHT” • by Benjamin C. Krause”


  1. Mandy Pannett Says:
    July 17th, 2010 at 1:38 am

    A beautifully written poem.

  2. Paul A. Freeman Says:
    July 17th, 2010 at 2:50 am

    Very evocative

  3. Roberta SchulbergGoro Says:
    July 17th, 2010 at 5:33 am

    All those things at once is an interesting and original approach to a moment. I like this poem circling around a single mind at a single time.

  4. Catherine Zickgraf Says:
    August 26th, 2010 at 10:42 am

    I appreciate concision.

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