Friday, July 24, 2015

Still.




Still.


still it is that even
the liquid wing of ink spilled
this winter across his desk, takes the face
and folded wing of a crow, even when it’s dried
and sanded, and wiped away.  still, it’s the dim shadow soak she dabs at—
                        his desk—the first boy—then carries to the front of the room and covers it
with her mother’s first place beige lace doily
and a scented geranium still in red, rescued after a long dark
summer in weed and shade.  would you look at it, see!
see it bloom now boys and girls, come take a whiff
of it.



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