WORDS
Words say everything,
he said.
So many words to say
everything,
I say.
So many times to be sure
everything
is said.
Then the words
have the final
word:
Let us live here, we who
have no place
else to go.
Author’s Bio
Nominated for the National Book Award and twice-nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, J.R. Solonche is the author of twenty-four books of poetry and co-author of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
