Joseph Dorazio
Closing Costs

the ledger bears two columns:
one for profit,
the other, loss.

the pallbearers
transfer pledger
and bouquet.

less addition
than subtraction
this treasury of frost,

secures the one
and only debt
inevitably repaid.

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Joseph Dorazio studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as a docent at Penn's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A literary late bloomer, he began writing poetry in 2007. Since then his poems have appeared in various journals, including The Mad Poets Review.

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