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Poetry Drafts / 4 July 2023

Impatient words crisscrossing
An empty page
Once a mighty birch standing proud
Then through a slaughterhouse
Pulped into porridge without plates
Abused and spooned into sheets
To become empty pages
Where impatient words fail
To become poetry.

About The Author

Hayden Veil

In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.