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Wild Onions

 

These poems occur within the punctuation of a pause, in the incompleteness of a phrase broken across the spine of several lines of verse. Like the tense energy of a bullwhip that gathers to a crisp crack that then echoes in the listeners ears….

HIEROGLYPHIC

Delicately
she bends to
readjust the rose

its stem
too thick the petals
about to fly

off and shout
but, having initially
advanced,

she
fails at everything
the frail limbs disposed

as before exactly
everything
unchanged

she
smiles they are
too beautiful