Epiphanies

Don't Say That jar, collecting coins for bad words

 

Epiphanies

What greater doubt
than if

preceding only,
or hope cascading through the withheld
unspoken phrase?

Or the conditional, as it slows to place
an obstacle in its very own
path. If only I could

I would deny its existence,
but the conjunctive

bears blame as well,
though nothing’s put before

the preposition (which one
would certainly never end with).

 

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“Epiphanies” first appeared here in April 2015.

 

CUE 8

 

6 thoughts on “Epiphanies

  1. I once wrote a poem calling my daughter “epiphany.” I didn’t get all of this until I heeded the punctuation more carefully. Quite picturesque. Well said!

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