Thursday, May 28, 2020

a piece of glass

i find an earring
behind

the dresser
after pulling it out to
rescue

a quarter i dropped.
it's a shiny earring.

diamond, no, perhaps
glass.

from a distance it looks
valuable
and real, but it's

a rhinestone.
worth pennies perhaps.

and i think back,
what wasn't fake about her?

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