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Friday, November 12, 2010

Friday Flash Fiction 55, for poets

We can’t all be poets, but

with only one,

we can live…..


For the poet takes us

to the deepest, dankest

worm’s stank bed,



drags our fingers

leafing through

the crumbling acrid yeasty loam.


He overturns bones

to dig us out and

quenches with liqueur


distilled in dew

from the bud

of the deepest red.



This is a flash fiction poem, in exactly 55 words, hosted by Mr Knowitall, HERE  .  Write your own story or poem, let us know, and post on Friday!  Should I change "red" to "read"?
Photo by J.Giese.
I am grateful to the talented and truthful poets I heard tonight, who lifted me and shredded me and wrung me out.  I am ready to get up and face another day...