Wednesday, March 2, 2022

words and dirt

Dusk arrives just the same, 

the goodbye light tilted high or

the shadows standing up

tiptoed to stretch skyward as

I smoke and spill head to heel

with my back to the so long sun, 

staring into the tide of night.

The moral of the story, the lesson 

left on read, has fallen from

it’s nest. Broken pieces of

some meant to be, a body

left with nothing but

words and dirt to drape it.

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