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A Dry Poem

Ronda Kay Broatch

I am carved, hollow
A withered gourd
My core removed
Plainly visible, scored:
All seeds and soft strings

The wind slips
Inside my cavity
Stirring seeds skipped
By the carver's spoon
Which click and clatter
Across my ribcage like dry leaves
Scattering in a dust storm

My skin is onion thin
I'm a midnight echo-drum
These sere seeds spin on my
Xylophone bones and they moan:
Can you hear us? Can you hear?
This prayer for rain?
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAXAX XXXXXXX XXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 408
Words 77
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 7, 6
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