The Innisfree Poetry Journal

www.innisfreepoetry.org

by Michael Hutchison

DIFFICULTIES OF SPEECH

How are the words
So carefully hidden
Concealed like lovers' letters
From this silence
They would break

Who are we
To need them
And who is to say
They are wrong

Think of the words as fingers
Gently calling to another hand
Fumbling with latchkeys
Hesitant
And trembling
In the doorway





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