Saturday, October 10, 2009

Tomato Valentine

From what depths
you arrive on wet bricks
gentle desert snail
after the unforgivable
summer heat a god

among the pansies
who also arrive to restart
spring where normally
fall would have intervened
we plant tomatoes

in October by May
they're burnt out
here in hell we prepare
for heaven by doing
everything in reverse.

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