VOYAGE INTO MANHOOD

BROTHERHOOD

There’s a quiet nobility that lives inside the bones of men

who dare go into the trenches with a brother,

and hold him, til his trembling becomes belonging

And there’s a dignity that drinks from the underground springs

of masculine blood,

down here, in the fecund howl of the earth,

The dark blood of men runs thick through the stones and  bones and roots

A man needs brothers, then he can love a woman,

really love a woman, then, he can love the world

~ Richard Palmer

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