Tuesday, July 15, 2014

For the Petulant Two-Fisted Heart


Suddenly attentive at the instant
The instance draws near
Slowly and more slowly now 

Evanescent and fragrantly rosy oh boy!
What fun it is
Greeting what happens next

The poem whose
Words become a blazoned face 

The poem whose attendant amiability
Names what it cannot speak

What it can only wish to do

O no more dolorous possibilities
Gnawing faintly hopeful clouds  

No more spite in the velvet pity 
Waiting down a long sweet song 
That smells only vaguely true

Don’t these exhausted roses ever think?


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