A Diamond Mined

Reducing a book
down to one chapter

Reducing that chapter
to a paragraph honed

Reducing that paragraph
to one lasting sentence

Reducing that sentence
 to a word
— truth atoned

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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