New Draft
Wind picks apart my manuscript
scatters stanzas
through the park
disentangles reasons,
rhymes
unframing
any images.
Metaphors shed references,
carry on
beyond themselves.
Words flow
no longer
bound
by
form
now entropy's the editor
as nature plays the publisher.
New Draft © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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39 words (40 being the prompt limit). Paper brevity challenge prompt - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2779834-Brevity-series-196---paper
Submitted: May 27, 2021