Aubade for You on this Day This September First Day It is better to say “I am suffering,” Writes Simone Weil, “than to say ‘This landscape is ugly.’” Christian Wiman Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries ...
I Name You Anna – The amaryllis is tipping her brilliant crimson into the desk. Her curled stamens, once bold-gold are suffering into their own dusts. Some has already let go to a halo surround, their ‘come and get me’ finger tips lingering in impotence. It’s been Christmas since. There are six remaining blooms & I’ve turned the drying dying ones to face the south-east away from me. Such blunted hunger, bulbed in her ball of wax. Dwarfed. I wonder, when she is finally spent, can I crack that red wax trapping her bulbs & set into her a pending rescue? Can I find, over the course of this next three seasons, a savory soil she can expand in, & spread the span of her bulbed clavicles, her rooted backbones into sybaritic santana’d black, nudging up, coming from nothing but her own mothere’...
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