poetry: incense + prayer
There is only so much incense can do
once mustiness has set in. I lit it
anyway prayed that I could continue
in that partnership simply because it
was easier than not simply because
it was easier to light incense then
to get flames going where there had never
really been a fire easier until
I met my match flame struck fire leapt and I
burned elsewhere
I wrote the first draft of this poem in Danika Dinsmore’s Poetry BootCamp during Ojai WordFest. In this case, the speaker in the poem (the “I”) is not really me, the poet writer of the poem.
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