Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Unacceptable Valentine

At the end of pleasure

you get to wash down

the warm red bricks

with water sweeping

the sand away

the petals and fallen fruit

the ungrown portions of

a person cauterized

by trauma or cut short

by early death strange

early deaths in full flower

in which the seed

of sacrifice is sown

but who can really do

another’s work for them

or accept for them

the unacceptable loss?

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