Hard as Rock: A Quadrille

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 Quadrille #255: X marks the spot

Write a poem of exactly 44 words in response to the prompt. Your poem must contain the word xenolith.

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Here I am, stuck.

Stuck slap dab in the middle.

Middle of this family.

Family of proverbial mule-stubborn souls.

Souls stuck in stone-set routine.

Routine precise and rigid.

Rigid, each tedious family dinner harder.

Harder than a mantle xenolith.


Both near impossible to break.


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