Finding Truth Forum Winner #1

Work by: R George Wishes She Was Someplace Warm



Two thousand and twelve photographs
Never taken at the precise moment
Remind me of nothing
Nine hundred and fifty seven lighters
Set carelessly down to rest
Provide flames now for strangers
Four hundred and thirty two pennies
Once neglected on forgotten streets
Never brought any luck.
Sixty-three erasers
Decisively crumbled in frustration
Provided little resolution.
Thirty-nine phone numbers
Discarded into pockets
Expired into vulnerable lint.
Fourteen lips
Fostering smiles of indifference
Touched my lips only once.
Seven love letters
Idly slumber in empty drawers
Neither consumed nor loved
Three men
Parched a thirsty heart
Abandoned in the unyielding crevasse.