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I tie you to my heart as this forget-me-not

of prosetry. This posy of violet flames,

and I a cedar of Lebanon, grown sweet in the sap

from longing to be hewn by your merciful ax......

 

Forgive me Beloved, for all these garlands I bedeck

about your invisible beauty.

Often they are old and smell of the sweat of a phantom labor,

too colored by a false odor to be real flowers.

Take my silence and wring out that last drop of sham

still-born from inadequate words.

 

I would arise in your thought and stay put

like a hen upon an egg.

Like a seed husk deep in the musk of becoming only you.

As a forget-me-not laurel, set within a crown of flowers

only you can wear.

 

I have grown thin within your purple mantle

like an old and toothless fox in your divine hen house.

Pleased to consume the feather light awakenings

of your presence, and my absence.

 

love

 

eric

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright 2002. Eric Ashford.

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