Posted tagged ‘fitting in poem’

Born in the Fifties (In June)–Friday Flash 55

October 25, 2013

My Mom's Favorite Flower

 

Born in the Fifties (In June)

Important to pirouette
a squeezed radius, cinch waist.

June made fitting include favoriting
pearls/roses, merchant-determined
birth flower/stone–
what people were supposed to give you
special; what you were supposed to be
special–
Impossible to imagine either
born of grit; harder
to push from
shell/bud/whorl
into dirt freshness, taking
deep breadths.

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Here’s an almost belated draftish sort of poem for the G-Man –go tell him so he believes I made it in time–and also for a prompt of Kerry O’Connor on With Real Toads to write about the language of flowers.