Scott Simpson · Poetry

Story

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Story

a story may rest

in stillness

a hanging cloud

untouched by wind

hovering

a distant thought

an unopened wish

fading quietly

but an action

born of story

becomes flame—

sparks leaping

from heart to hand,

from vision to

conflagration

consuming one world

awakening possibility–

seeds unbound by a narrative

that moved us