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Author Kellie Brown

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Kellie Brown

I try to craft a poem,
to construct a sturdy 
prayer box, but the words 
collapse, scatter,
alphabet detritus 
littered across the page.

With a new day’s optimism,
I trade hammer for spoon,
yet stirring the words yields
a feeble stew, bland and
watery in the pot.

What if the poet’s gift
has flown to richer hosts?

I panic at such a thought,
then remember what to do.
I reach for the rich words of others,
feed on Anne Sexton’s “mother-broth,”
seed my ground with borrowed bounty.
I await the promise of plenty.

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Poems & Paraboles publishes work that illuminates, awakens, or opens a small window toward wonder. Some pieces are quiet. Some are bold. Some carry a moral thread, while others wander into the mysterious and ethereal.

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