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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Charles Grosel


 

Beneath the Tile

The word of the day is mellow,
or maybe tender, like the bruise
on a pear or the wrinkle on the page
that hiccupped through the printer.

The message has been delivered,
and now it's the long slog through
normal, as if we can pretend that
nothing has changed, or everything.

We don't see the paint peel or
the glue wear away beneath the tile,
not until the roof caves in and
the drywall crumbles in the rain.