Scott Simpson · Poetry

Everyone Brings the Firewood

Use For Kindling · source pages 73

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Someone knows how to build

a fire. Another brings dry kindling.

Another remembers the words

to an old song we forgot.

This is not competition.

This is a circle.

Everyone you meet knows something

you don’t. The trick is to make room—

to clear the table, light the lantern,

and listen as if stories were warmth.

As if trust were built

like anything else— together.

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