Blood from a Stone

By James Dufresne

All forms of the expression I have read
make mention of not getting life from something dead,

Not being able to tax or borrow from emptied accounts,
or are flowery words from a heart that's been pained.

But to have the thing happen as forces of gravity and physics collide
and a stone 'neath the stone picked up, with fingers twixt the divide

Provides a moment of expletives, rue, and hurt in goodly amounts
as upon the wanted boulder, the sanguine fluid drained.

You can get blood from a stone.