Sunday, March 20, 2011

Joe’s Valentine for the First Day of Spring

Yes you’re right the evil one
is green and more beautiful than

the other one in the sense
of attractive exciting thrilling

wave or hill or body ridden subdued
surely you admit the concept of

either having no material parts
requiring the existence of the lyric

the orchid on the table in its plastic
pot I got at Pick ‘n Save and it

has attitude an archive of ambition
the blunt beauty of pure force

having digested good and evil if
allowed to dry out between watering.

2 comments:

William Keckler said...

You rely on

broken prose

a lot lately.

is that a sign.

or just because

it's easy

to do

like this.

Peter said...

Isn't all poetry broken prose, in some sense, "broken-away-from"? I know, I know.

Long time no hear from.