Sunday, April 19, 2015

(source: “Petal by Petal”, 2002.)

Passed amber trees walking
the route to your basement
apartment, my voice singing
some precious mystery. But

in the volume of desert heat, 
with empty sand-fields and 
gasoline rivers through the 
windshield, I woke to a drop.

Morning rain, wash my hands
of ash. Make a towering vase.
For every blade I cut, a petal
of September turns to stone.

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