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| Where are the Words? |
Gwyneth Box
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Where are the words
I need?
Like a spendthrift
I have squandered them,
scattering them on the green lawns
of forty summers,
frittering them
on trivialities.
I look in books,
in dictionaries and lexicons,
but they are blank as my notebook:
empty of inspiration.
The wind has carried away
all the words,
borne them on the warm air,
like so many seagulls.
Like a prodigal,
I am left destitute,
my tongue, dry,
licking at stale crusts. |
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