Continuing our coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, we speak to a Pacific Northwest poet who pays tribute to Boston.

Scott Poole of Vancouver, Wash., is the House Poet for the Oregon Public Broadcasting show "Live Wire." He's also a long distance runner.

The bombings on Monday inspired him to write the poem, "To Run - A Prayer for Boston," which he shares with us (see below).

Poole tells Here & Now's Robin Young that he sees the pain involved in running a marathon as a metaphor for what's happening now.

"The fact that the marathoners push through that pain and conquer it inspires us and makes us hope for something better, and I think we're all just hoping the same exact thing for Boston right now," he said.

By Scott Poole:

To Run

~a prayer for Boston To run

is to rise above the weak spirit

is to take on pain

is to push pain in the chest

with both palms stumbling over garbage,

gravel, fragments of life, is to say I will take you

on in the street.

Every breath of mine

is a battering ram, shoving, crushing,

swinging a hammer of air. I am a body of fast moving blood

inhaling you

taking you in like a tank.

I will consume your hate. I will run straight into you

as if you were a finish line of joy,

picking up the fallen along the way

and you will never stop me,

you will never

stop me.

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