Writing, the words wait in a line,
a row of polished stones
ready to be skipped across the lake.
That is their desire as well.
If I am clumsy, my flung words gravelly,
jagged, they will sink like rocks.
Stones
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Stones
Writing, the words wait in a line,
a row of polished stones
ready to be skipped across the lake.
That is their desire as well.
If I am clumsy, my flung words gravelly,
jagged, they will sink like rocks.
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