Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z

Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z — page 7
ACCEPTANCE I am a word with teeth a crocodile sunning on a muddy bank Some fear me others misunderstand me and the way I’d like them to be I rest in what is belly bulging drowsy still Yet I do not flounder as you do in that unhappy swamp between the way things are as a plover picks bits of meat from my mouth 8 Persona written in the voice of the subject of the poem