
I try not to include words
that would hurt you.
The trouble with that
is the limits to what I can say.
I can tell you that you
have meant a great deal to me.
[As sandpaper means a great
deal to the wood being ground
down to sawdust, falling to
pieces, plummeting in spirals
to the cement, to lay there
until swept away or rendered
stale, molded, in little mounds
never enough to combust.]
L.M. Cole is a poet and artist residing in North Carolina. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming with Roi Fainéant, Corporeal, Bullshit Lit, The Bitchin’ Kitsch and others. Twitter @_scoops__