First Cut

Do you change the meaning

  in favor of form

 

Do you add a new comma

  because it’s the norm

 

Do you shorten the sentence

  because it’s advised

 

Do you scour the pages

  re-dotting your I’s

 

Do you read and reread

  again to address

 

What sure of at first

  and now want to correct

 

A wise man once said

  and it’s truer today

 

“The First Cut Is The Deepest”

   —leave your words as they lay

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

Leave a comment