Friday, February 26, 2010

Brown Valentine

Carrying today’s dead out

to the compost

I perceived your face

carefully among them

vines torn from the

trellis conversations

bitterly brown red

a child screaming in

the background so I

had to make a nest

for the bad oranges

for you to lie down in

at the top of the heap

I had to sit down

and talk with you

for a long time

before I could go

back into the house.

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