Cords
Like seasoned wood
We take nouns
From cords of words:
Father, mother,
And all those phrases
Burned years ago.
We toss them
Into the embers,
Listen to their comfort--
Smell that old
Sweetness as time
And memory
Twirls to smoke.
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