or a welt of ink like a bruise nudging the margin.
I’ll pick them up and taste every syllable
before slotting them inside empty yoghurt pots,
deserted notebooks, ready to be revived
so I can swallow them anew.
Written: March 2016. Explanation: A poem written in my own time - the title runs on into the poem itself. All feedback welcome. A link to my Facebook writing page can be found on my HP home page. NOTE: Many of my older pieces will be removed from HP at some point in the future.