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Scrimshaw

For the Breakup Nonet Challenge

By Penny FullerPublished about a year ago 1 min read
Scrimshaw
Photo by Matt Seymour on Unsplash

Without you, latticed shells of us-ness

still twine hollow rootlets throughout

me. Some views slither away,

leaving shipworm tunnels

in selfsense. The best

bright veins of you

stay. I'm etched-

enhanced-

changed.

love poems

About the Creator

Penny Fuller

(Not my real name)- Other Labels include:

Lover of fiction writing and reading. Aspiring global nomad. Woman in science. Most at home in nature. Working my way to an unconventional life, story by story and poem by poem.

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  • D.K. Shepardabout a year ago

    What an incredible concept for the nonet challenge! And so well executed! Brilliant poem, Penny!

  • This was so poignantly beautiful! Loved your Nonet!

  • Esala Gunathilakeabout a year ago

    Appreciate it.

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