By Mark J. Mitchell
The hole is shaped
like your missing teapot
carved out of stiff paper,
white, one and one half
lifetimes ago. Shadow it
with your fingers
to draw the conclusions
of puppets.
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Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in southern California. His latest poetry collection, Roshi San Francisco, was just published by Norfolk Publishing. Starting from Tu Fu was recently published by Encircle Publications.He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster. @Mark J Mitchell_Writer
