06: Open - June 2021

Demurrer

If justice is blind what use are the eyes of the law?
A blown out iris,

two spheres suspended in formaldehyde
or a frosted lens

that somehow still sees guilt, redemption, truth.
What of justice's

ears? Nose? Mouth? Fingers? What does the law taste?
If innocence isn't ocularcentric

she must hear a choir
of context or smell

a bed of appeals
or feel the goose flesh

of disclosure.
The court may hear but does justice listen?

-Leo Cookman

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