Sunday, October 16, 2011

October Roses Valentine

And finally October light
lays me on my stomach  
 
starts massaging my shoulders
as small a thing as that
 
to let me know I’ve died
but I still have to lift my shirt

to wear the fiery robe
of failure and defeat

again and carry its flames
across the narrow strait

of weedy yard to where
a circle of roses once

reminisced themselves all
the way back to complete

invisibility a scent
that haunts this bare

patch in the garden where
their hearts were spent

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