Just words in a pile
heaped like dirty laundry
unsorted on the floor
walked on by the careless
slept on by the dog.
Jumbled letters bent and broken
punctuation scattered and crushed
pushed under the bed
to whisper alone
an alphabet soup of discards.
Noreen Braman is a writer from Jamesburg, the author of “I’m 50 – Now What?” and the Program and Publications Administrator for the New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program.
