What I Hold

by

J. L. Teagle

 

 

An egg is a paradox,
a white and
unfathomed word.

The one I threw
at you, wrong,
so you misunderstood.

An egg in my palm
nests as if made
to fit that spot.

This is the one I keep.
The word I know
is right, the one
I should give you,
is warming
in my hand

even as the rest of me
goes cold.

 

 

 

J. L. Teagle is an M.F.A. student at the University of New Orleans.  She is also editor-in-chief of the University's literary journal Ellipsis.  She has won both the Robert F. Gibbons and Vassar Miller awards for poetry. She believes there can never be too much good ink in the world.

 

 

 

 

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