Borscht
Hopelessly lost
in the dreaded bog.
Bloodred moon.
Crimson fog.
The air was like borscht.
This poem is the worscht.
The rhymes are forscht.
— Calef Brown
Copyright © 2019. All Rights Reserved. From Up Verses Down: Poems, Paintings, and Serious Nonsense. Henry Holt & Co.. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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From Up Verses Down: Poems, Paintings, and Serious Nonsense
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