Scott Simpson · Poetry

Scratches

Use For Kindling · source pages 83

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Scratches

The table is new, but it’s

already full— a dropped bead of super

glue, a streak of blue from watercolor,

a knife’s mistake along the edge.

We haven’t had it long, but

it’s already ours.

Don’t sand it down.

Let the mess speak: we lived

here. We gathered.

We spilled.

We stayed.