Friday, March 14, 2014

Hell's Valentine

The smell of garbage
and orange blossoms
someone whistling
what’s for lunch
 
dry bread and pull it
my mother would say
tiny red flamenco dancers
all over the pomegranate tree
 
the garden will never look better
unless you rip out everything
and bring in just one
purple lilac tree in bloom
 
but it would never survive
here in hell
that heavenly scent

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