At The Edges Of Speech

It's hard to know  exactly why Some words  are wild and continue beyond their speaking.   In the poet's life like ghosts they recur.  they follow you home  like fortune cookie  At the end of your palm and plate.  these crumbling  prophesies have lost  their warmth. dead stars like lines freezing at the edges  of speech. 

This poem is about: 
Our world

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Andrew_Rymill

it should read like this:

It's hard

to know exactly why

Some words

 are wild

and continue beyond their speaking. 

 

 In the poet's life  l

ike ghosts

they recur.

 

they follow

you home 

like fortune cookie

 At the end of your plate.

 these crumbling prophesies

have lost their warmth.

dead stars

like lines

freezingat the edges of speech.

 

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