A lovely poem from the February issue of Poetry.
Flowers
By Wendy Videlock
for my mother
They are fleeting.
They are fragile.
They require
little water.
They'll surprise you.
They'll remind you
that they aren't
and they are you.
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- Don't be too sure of that. What makes you sure of that?
- Don't make me feel any colder—time is like a clock in my heart
- Take me on a trip—I'd like to go someday. Take me to New York; I'd love to see L.A.
- When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow. All them women gonna make me teach 'em what they don't know how
- I must be an acrobat, to talk like this and act like that
- The lights go out. The smell of doom... is creeping into your lonely room
- You should see me when you're not around: I'm a genius in this town; I'm a queen bee when the coast is clear
- Slap me. No, somebody slap me
- And I feel like I just got home
- Grab your pack, my darling, grab your pack and walk with me
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23 January 2012
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