Words Overheard at the Market
Yes, she said,
everything here
was thrown away.
I just believed
in their beauty.
About this poem
Hard to call it a poem really, since I stole all but two words from a young woman in the Roanoke City Market. But it’s worth setting down anyway.
Tom
Quarry House 
Reminds me of my marriage which ended in 1996….and what others said about the end of it.