'Sea Jewels No. 9' artwork by Kathy Morton Stanion EBSQ
courtesy of etsy.com
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Leftover words
do not sound better after reheating
and are probably best discarded
yet we hold onto them
even as they gunk up routines
(messy critters aren’t they?)
believing their coherency
has not only no expiration date
but a date after which
flowers will blossom
out of the pain they caused
surely sonnets will re-emerge
out of arcane scraps of syllabic misery
but the truth is
open eyes collect unexpected sights
open ears collect better-left-unsaid whispers
and before you know it
there they are
washing up on the shores of forever
those ever infamous
leftover words
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