the color of cotton | Poem

 

the color of cotton

the color of cotton

does not mean

what they say

stands comfortably alone

woven weightless

so I can be

washed and folded

while shedding skin

at a prodigious rate

listening to

contrabassoon

and insect continuo

- Ken Peters
 
 

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