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Spring 2010   Vol. 26 #2
Spring 2010   Vol. 26 #2

Poems/Not Poems

Termites

By Robert Simmons

 
 

The termites
Have been eating
Little holes
In my wooden chest
For fifty years—
All the better
For the moment
When You
Strike a match
Inside me.

 

∞

From the Spring 2010 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 26, No. 2)
© 2010 Robert Simmons. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Author

Robert Simmons is a writer of metaphysical books on crystals and stones, as well as a jewelry designer, rock whisperer, novelist and part-time poet. He is the author of The Book of Stones, Stones of the New Consciousness and the visionary novel Earthfire, as well as the poetry chapbook, The Letter I Wrote You Before We Met. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Kathy Helen Warner.

Author

Robert Simmons is a writer of metaphysical books on crystals and stones, as well as a jewelry designer, rock whisperer, novelist and part-time poet. He is the author of The Book of Stones, Stones of the New Consciousness and the visionary novel Earthfire, as well as the poetry chapbook, The Letter I Wrote You Before We Met. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Kathy Helen Warner.

 
 
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