beneath the lamppost --
the cardboard sign
on her chest
reads Wearth/Worth
in black and gold
Atlas Poetica, 22, 2015
Note: The Old English word wearth means outcast.
A Room of My Own: Home, Sweet Home
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, XLI: "home"
boom, boom, boom
outside the steel safe room
with his ears covered
a boy sings,* If I had wings*
*l...