Sunday, July 15, 2012

Silk Valentine

My cactus
wears a halter
of thin
       silk strands
to hold him up-
right in the pot
he’s so far
outmaneuvered
escaped from
so many times
I keep lassoing him
until he blooms
no I say
though you wear the sky
for a shirt and the sun
for a beating heart
you too must flower
and die

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