Ars Poetica

I collect the leafing 
of paint loosed from siding,

the inner lining of a box
that held a chime.

I watch a crow flaunt
its blue-black coat 

and a silver moth fanning
itself by the door post 

Sweetness bursts
by degrees out of the skin

as the sweet potato 
roasts in the fire.

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