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# Bravery
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/bravery/
- Published: 2025-11-16T20:39:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-18T20:57:26.000Z
- Description: This is a time for bravery. Not the human-cannonball kind. Not the free-diver nor the free-soloist.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: America on the Brink, Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

This is a time for bravery.  
Not the human-cannonball kind.  
Not the free-diver nor the free-soloist.  
Not the malign puppeteer with his rifle-bearing puppets,  
nor the wind-up dolls taking fire from all sides.

No, nothing like that—

I mean the kind that remembers  
what to do in an earthquake.  
That carries its fears in a grocery bag, like milk.  
That grabs onto the branches of normalcy  
and makes small-talk with an owl.  
And that, when earth’s lips turn blue,  
performs mouth-to-mouth until  
a warble disproves the idea that all is lost.