Termites

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.

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.

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.

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Author

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

Author

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.