Alexa Lee - Simple Measures

Eliot's Prufrock measured his life in coffee spoons,
having known the evenings, mornings, afternoons.
Such is the nature of simple measures,
themselves repositories of greater treasures:
the flick of a goldfish's tail
the absence of incoming mail
the very last coffin-nail
in an otherwise languid soirée.

Alexa Lee

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