Richard Shelton
- this is the land of gods in exile
they are fragile and without pride
they require no worshiperswe come down a white road in moonlight
dragging our feet like innocents
to find the guilty already arrived
and in possession of everythingwe see the stars as they were years ago
but for us it is the future
they warn us too latewe are here we cannot turn back
soon we hold out our hands
full of money
this is the desert
it is all we have left to destroy
From Selected Poems 1969 - 1981 by Richard Shelton, © 1982 Richard Shelton. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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