Friday, December 8, 2017

RED HERRINGS


RED HERRINGS
—for Sara Menefee

our iPhones
seeking shoals
of lost words
to compose small poems
catch unschooled fish
inappropriate
placeholders
leading us astray.

12/8

She gathers
purse seine nets
on the city streets
where the homeless
tell her stories
small poems
flashing a silver
currency
of hope
in the gutters
of despair.

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