“Most people are on
the world, not in it”
Muir said that so long ago
but he was wrong
Most people are outside
the world, doubting they
know how to be among it
Riding under a hawk’s wings
the air forgets
what it means to be useless
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
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