poem in your pocket :: laurel blossom

Keep it short
make it small
enough to fit
like a bit of cotton
sewn onto your heart.

Make it strong
its shape
rectangular or square
straightforward
like a handshake.

Let it hold
little things
you might discard
if you didn’t have a poem
to put them into.

Greetings, seashells,
ribbon or string, buttons,
indefinite articles,
earrings, paper clips,
small, scarcely noticeable, change.

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