It’s Poetry Friday! WOOT! Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect is hosting today’s poetry celebration. For the Start the Year Off Write challenge, I wrote three mask poems as part of an exercise in description. Today I’m sharing one of them. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Un_dollar_us.jpg) Dollar Bill by Keri Collins Lewis I can’t breathe here in your pocket, folded up and crammed against your hip bone. You may think I’m nearly worthless, but I began life as boll of cotton, bright in the Mississippi sun. You …

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