A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Monday, February 03, 2020

the once-bitten hand

The once-bitten hand
never feeds again. It would
never quite dare, even though
it can. It would rather
teach lesson in stinkeye
and pout. "No, my dainties
within me can rot! They are

not

for your mouth." And so it
draws out.

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