'Grains Of Salt'

To campaign
in poetry
but govern
in prose
Words stretch
till breaking
integrity
blown

Promising 
everything
sins
unconfessed
Bombast
and pander
the charlatans
— best

(The New Room: July, 2025)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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