Alice O. Howell   

 

Paradox

 

How wealthy I am

in such a lack

 

how rich

in the specific of  poverty

 

I have everything this day

but you to share it with

 

and so it seems I have nothing —

yet, knowing such ever-brimming loss

places me beyond my peers of  need 

                  

                   somehow

 

          it is like having all of never

          into which to set a now.

 

                                                                                a.o.howell



 

 

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