While this piece from Dwight Gray can be seen as a love poem (of a sort), it’s so much more than that. It’s a meditation on uncertainty and aging, perseverance and emptiness, the ill-defined “edges” of the “marriage bed.”
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The Butcher
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Editor’s Note: This is not the first time Dwight Gray has appeared on The Good Men Project. Read his poem “Orange” here.
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