Redemption

Is this redemption?
​That one man, crying out, should gaze upon
​an outflung arm that never reached
​whatever it was reaching for
​through mirrors of space and shards of time;
​And discern -- in that one arm
​among a million shattered others down a war-corrupted shore --
​A single saving poignant grace of line.

Lawrence Blair Goral
​Los Angeles

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