20 September 2025

Rice Bin

Leaf 154 – Reflections

 



Although only in my early twenties at the time, this is another from a series of poems which I wrote reflecting on loneliness and old age (see also, Leaf 153).

 

 

His eyesight and

his appetite failing

– mouse droppings

gather in the rice bin.

 

 

 

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