Monday, December 09, 2013

The Day of Flamboyance


You stand at a doorstep that does not exist
Counting anachronisms at least three when
A widow opens the door says come in dear girl!
Nashville’s burning the pillars falter O the stars!
She says winter is convulsively droll this year
And you smile with such unseasonable charm
What I want to know she says is why you don’t
Rise against the silence this absence of God
In the grace of your sweet unpersuadable face
Even the stars feel assiduously hard and grim
You no longer know how to pray but see here
She says I am listening so be brief and don't
Say with two words what can be said with one
Your curls tumble too languorously near the sun

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