Dumpster Diving
(Or, No, No Nonet!*)
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1 min readDec 11, 2016
Bag lady sifts through trash at the curb
Pokes bent rhymes & squashed metaphor
Probes half-rotten meanings
Stashes, recycles,
And hand-to-mouth
Savors one
Pristine
Verb
*A nonet poem has 9-lines with a descending number of syllables.
