Attempt to Glue
cautiously a little girl is pulling
nerves out of a plantain leave
tries to bring separate strings-
still wet of their life’s fluids-
sustainable together
fully convinced she does
crouched in the dry grass
making pairs and trying
to unite these over and over again
both hands then stained
with strange sludge that won’t stick
the child suddenly turns half
crumples up the stuff
and kicks
her delusion off
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Submitted by ludy_b on October 23, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 395 |
Words | 69 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 4, 6 |
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