18 February 2013

Stepson elegy + the story of the Cherokee Rose

I'm reading Alfred Corn's collection of lines: Present

                             ... Our next-to-last
Heart-to-heart you said you couldn't taste anything
Which reminded me how ...

                         ...-it's not a turban but a crown
You're wearing (see, I too have lost all sense of taste)
And not of white roses but of plaited thorns.


We are like penguins
during the Antarctic night 
drawn together by the warmth

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