Or is the holder of the pen a rod for lightning or divination? Or the conveyance of gestation? Let’s assume a poem comes from a poet. Therefore, is a poem composed of a similar percentage of water (99+%)?
Of food fragile the egg & steadfast. Convenient container for the wait. Yellow, too, optimistic.
Away
ReplyDeleteon the rock by the stream he sits still
and turns over the letter
she sent him
his first with a stamp
and return address
to know she is somewhere
else
would other days make him sad
this time the sun hits his back
and he takes in the heat
of her hand on the paper
the thought of her
thinking of him