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Sunday, 5 August 2012

The Greatest Subject





When hushed grey horizons scale into rose.
All pedals are eyelids in a stand of wild roses.

You’re breaking stride. Moist wind billows
a coral sheet in shims of yellow-rose.

Bruised blooms in her hectic garden,
the hidden pushed, the overt arose.

The secret eye is slow and takes a field—
 jagged leaves grow among blunt roses.

Should one collect and part such flowers?
The turnkey eye of the watchful rose.

Those who see the flailed hedgerow know
she’d rather bleed herself then clip a rose.










Orchard Ghost



dress

billows

 indigo 

apples grow

bend


 bow

the boughs 
low

time slows
afterglow

 along 
long rows
 eyes know

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