One Way or Another

by Marian Kaplun Shapiro

One way or another
 
it will happen
because we are alive.
We animals. 
We fish. We birds.
We plants.                  
                        Or, 
it will happen 
whether or not.
 
Stone. Mountain. Star.

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Marian Kaplun Shapiro is the author of a professional book, Second Childhood (Norton, 1988), a poetry book, Players In The Dream, Dreamers In The Play (Plain View Press, 2007) and two chapbooks:Your Third Wish, (Finishing Line, 2007); and The End Of The World, Announced On Wednesday (Pudding House, 2007). A five-time Senior Poet Laureate of Massachusetts, where she lives and practices as a psychologist, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2012. Her latest book of experimental poems, At The Edge Of The Cliff, will be published by Plain View Press early next year.