Scott Simpson · Poetry

One Word

Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 42

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One word

and then the one that follows

simple mathematics

one plus one plus

one more phrase maybe.

Simple addition

one bird leading the flock

you haven't yet seen beyond the trees

but you just know is there,

whispering pinfeathers against

the sky-page.