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"i don't think this next poem needs any introduction-- it's best to let the words speak for themselves"- Billy Collins, in his poem, "The Introduction."

9.06.2005

The Voice of an Unfinished Poem 

I am the shape the paper takes
jammed inside your pocket,
a jagged little geometric tooth that's tearing open
a face that can't yet speak.
I am the path its tears take:
hungry, clumsy, incoherent
sinking slowly through the denim
I’m water lily without wings

a stillborn shooting star
too small to light a sky

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