Sunday, July 26, 2015

Hymn to Valentine

You have this wonderful gift
for rubbing my back
which as the song says
I myself lack and for which
there are only poor replacements
we need to love something
or we can’t survive
the only difference being
those who do and those
who don’t just notice how
this whole abstraction
of roots and endless leaves
and sumptuous flowers
was just to push out
these pipsqueak seeds
on which the whole
wheelbarrow depends

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