Because each word matters? Because where each word comes from matters. Land and inspiration.
What is the origin of any soup? Each ingredient and its subsequent absence. For instance, the removal of spent vegetables in a stock, and, of course, the ridden bay leaf.
it's not the same without
ReplyDeletea scene
in which the young gal makes
the best of it
her family's spoilt
by time and miles
but she sends them trinkets
anyway
a roll of this
a flat of that
a taped together button
too great to haul
with the necessary
abdication
a ribbon anyway
a coin from faraway
that trip they took
the treasure they found
now in another's hands
all shaky from disbelief