Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Robert Verdon, #204, unwrapping the blue flower


we have
hidden away in a dusty compactus

the long path
to the unoiled gate of heaven

pointless
to breathe in a time of austerity

or to search
the cliff-beset straight and narrow path

a time indeed
of great crime behind every great fortune

and snow
snow on the soul of the masses wandering in the wilderness

then an apprentice
barely seventeen and still a virgin, finds

the blue
flower in brittle herbarium paper, dry, and musty, and reddening

2 comments:

  1. I really like the way you come up with unpredictable connections and avoid cliché! Lovely stuff.

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