Sieve Trying To Understand Water Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Sieve Trying To Understand Water

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Things become thoughts

& trying to find

words to hold them

(my mind fumbles

a sieve
trying to understand
water)

thoughts become things
again

the useless husks of words
scattered to the wind.

Dónall Dempsey
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: words
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Michael Pruchnicki 19 March 2008

scattered to the wind like drops of water transmogrified into husks?

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