Hollow & Silent

If a poem doesn’t live up

to its title

The moment is reclaimed

by time

 

Its chance to anoint

when read disappoints

A bell  

—unable to chime

 

(The New Room: April, 2021)

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

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