12/13/2008

The Pauper's Home

With a grain of dirt I bless
this house of mud and bones.

My language is not eloquent
but broken like a stolen kiss

hastily yet sweetly held.

I will never be a city. Never
be a castle, regal in its stone.

Instead, this handful of ashes,
this field of common flowers
brilliant in untended form

will suite me more.

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