The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 2/10/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Sunflower

Before my desires
with their impossible hues,
before the first wings

descend, I remember
you remembered me
even when I was silent—

my body a tarnished
pendulum in a field
of other mourners,

dark-pitted hearts.
The grossbeaks
would pluck an eye

and another eye,
their taking
a plumed rape

communal and harsh
as light glimmering
on bladed stalks.

I felt your hands
bear my losses,
you became

a gold thread pulling.
By slow degrees
my face turned.

Karen Rigby

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[blueraven95]

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beautiful.



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[Chorophyll]

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So nice. We planted sunflowers a few years ago (not that we had any room, mind you.) This reminds of me of how my son used to reach up and tug on them so he could "look them in the face."

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

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