Lonnard lives in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. He is a past-president of the New Zealand Poetry Society, and has appeared in numerous publications.

Lonnard Dean Watkins

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God     (After Nietzsche)

(an Arkquain)

God
has left —
leaving us
in our silence

to ponder our fate —
man's accountability
for his own hostility,
his own inaction

his morals borne
to be viewed
without
god.