…veneer sandpapered away,

an unvarnished me

(wood)

tell you most logs

in your eye

ring hollow

(wood)

concentrically tell you

–the whine filling

these not-wholes

is cheap as chuck,

(wood)

tell you there’s too much of it, too,

whinO’s paradise

sticky sweet sap which

lack of pith

(soft-core)

is a pity

–and rust that blights–

all

me trees’

(wood)

tell you this phyl’um should

zip it

or at the very least

stop carving trunk unilaterally,

(wood)

tell you initials are enough—

not an entire

recyclopedia.

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paper-

-less is more…

©Karen Robiscoe