The Uses of Conversation

communication, conversation, irony, meaning, poetry, sonnets

gossip and complaint
canapés covered in flies
chatter’s waste in a horde
of conversational rind
along an edge of secrets
safely unspoken
a conversation secretes
bits of mannered detritus
to feed on the muse
a white worm
inside soft flesh
gnaws out to air
thus we talk
thus I write

(October 2012)

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I am a poet and a teacher living in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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