Showing posts with label Priorities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Priorities. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Over Time


I make these plans
and sometimes they work out
but sometimes…
well, it would be interesting
to eavesdrop on my self
five years ago, or fifteen, or fifty
to hear the things
I thought were
so important

then turn to
my worries of today



This is a quadrille, for dVerse Poets' Pub where Kim has asked us for 44 words, exactly, that include some form of "eavesdropping."

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