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Loose Words

Jessica Lee McMillan

Nov 3, 2020

1 min read

POETRY

Literacy

A free-verse poem

Photo of grafitti wall with indecipherable word stencilled vertically between orange and blue colour blocks. — Photo by ShonEjai on Pixabay

My shiny letters slip down
quick rivulets gliding
catching corners in gutters
— tink tink, confused onomatopoeia —
as they mumble down the street
in my third language,
the undeciphered flow
pooling in mad lib anarchy

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