despair

life, poetry

“It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.”
                    ― Samuel Johnson


packed loosely
in one corner
of today
hope
locked in a Chinese box
grows stale
like dust
in a corpse’s heart
 (February 2013)

Published by subtextures

I am write and work in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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