Tuesday 29 January 2013

SPILT BEADS


SPILT BEADS

The words spill out of me like tumbled beads.

They won't lie flat like prose

or sit tidily on the page and

observe the margins:

so though I don't know anything

about pentameter or rhyme

they might perhaps be poetry?



Copyright Ruth Hartley

Lusaka long ago.


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