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Michael Stefan
Poems
Mar 2020
Splinter
Tiny sliver of wood
placed in accident
beneath fingernail
or under skin
stings greater
in the moment
than gunshot or knife.
For a splinter
always pokes
at our carelessness
and pierces straight
our most useless
*****: pride
#mistakes
#responsibility
#hardlessons
#injury
#pain
Written by
Michael Stefan
37/M/Minneapolis
(37/M/Minneapolis)
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