Thursday, April 14, 2011

Little Lonely Valentines

like the shadowy characters of the past
my grandparents and you
sleeping moth

a man is bending to smell a daylily
beside a little girl
frozen there on the frig

all my ancestors gather
when I miss you most
after all I chose them

how can we have wanted
people who can’t talk to us
except through the silence

by the time the notes arrived
the music had already gone
old violin.

No comments: