Rosanna Licari: ‘Gathering’
Gathering
At this hour
the small things matter.
Circling wildly
they mass like ants.
A fidgety crowd
that prods me awake
to collect what needs
to be stored in the front
pockets of the mind.
They should occupy a list but
there were bigger things
to think about so now
the trivial writes itself
into the preface
of morning.
Rosanna Licari
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