The difficulty to cut open the squash. The physical effort.
To begin the poem by splitting open the page.
Winter squash is formidable & delicious. Some poems are difficult to begin but worth the weight, the effort to cut open. Creating a nourishing soup is writing a poem. On this knife and spoon agree.
The priest ruminated on the frozen soil and mineral deposits
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great locks of hair and weapons underwater, impenetrable depths
described by poets as dark planets with their own orbits under the sea.