Friday, September 26, 2025

A poem


 A poem

is when you have the sky in your mouth.

It is hot like fresh bread,

when you eat it,

a little is always left over.


A poem

is when you hear

the heartbeat of a stone,

when words beat their wings.

It is a song sung in a cage.


A poem

is words turned upside down

and suddenly!

the world is new.


~ Jean-Pierre Simeón (from the book This Is a Poem That Heals Fish

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