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Poems

Sum total

30 April 2015

1:00 PM

30 April 2015

1:00 PM

Midnight to dawn adding
one more to the serial tally,
love and irritation carried over,
borrowed and paid back,

all these vulgar fractions
seeking to shape
a perfection divisible
only by one and itself.

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