FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19... Click on the image...
OLD ROPE
Jerral Miles

The cast-off or perhaps accidentally lost piece of rope
washed up onto the rocks, pebbles, actually;
loose pieces of fiber that once were part of a rope
some might say have lost their right to be called rope
and pebbles chipped away by time and weather
from some boulder in the low hills beyond the city
and washed down river over centuries because they
had lost their command of gravity and rushing water
but like people who come apart finally in spite
of intending always to remain strong and useful
lying now strung out with nothing left to do
but be beautiful in weakness.