The Poetry Corner

The Keeper Of The Jewel

By Paul Cameron Brown

The keeper of the jewel. I file it down, keep it smooth. I can be found any day, busy disguising the jaded and unproved. I follow forget-me-nots in a forest pool. I undo knots in groves of shallow trees. I pretend unfit sores can sit alongside water smoothed pebbles in a sunlit stream.