Thursday, February 11, 2016

Ash Wednesday Valentine

Where I sit
she sits at my feet
in spring who is not king
how many deaths is it now
and still it keeps losing
still death brings spring
a shape carried in its teeth
limp and bloody and spent
lays it down on the threshold
death is always walking away
like someone who interrupts
with nothing to say
just that blank stare
while spring waits respectfully
a moment and then goes on

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