1/26/2006

Impatient Gardener

Carefully crafted,
the story, the flower's
name whose footsteps

hurry towards
its beginning,

slowly rises
from past
to present,

bruised
by our sleep,

estranged
by our extinction-

our violent
persuasion.

The fist
of our sensible bodies
asphyxiate the rose.

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