All out Wor
- miriamtbarr
- Sep 22, 2014
- 1 min read
Last week
my friends, Cassandra
me, a small voiced wonder
minding about the world
Today telephoned
said I'm going to tell you
about yesterday
I couldn't think anything
besides hard
The world said then
lowering her voice
let me in
and, she added, hurry
catch up with tomorrow
about years from now
trees will be more important
than people
_ _ _ _ _
From Bullet Hole Riddle (Steele Roberts, 2014)
Previously published in Takahe #77 A deletion poem made using words found in Michael Harlow's All About the World from the 2010 National Poetry Day postcard series.
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