My Indulgent Refrain

The better the words

  formed

 

The meaner they

  became

 

       ‘free and alive

       and stirred from the bottom

 

      ‘hidden and denied

       in moments of pain’

 

Taking on new life

  they glare and they scowl

 

Staring back from the mirror

  —my indulgent refrain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

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