Scott Simpson · Poetry

One Smoker to the Next

Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 236

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Source page 236

In the center of the

table,

in the iron bowl

of white sand blended

gray with black ash

cigarette butts are planted

white-filtered

brown-centered

here, someone left

a matchbook

with five good matches