Persephone at the Farmer's Market
Departing Phoenix
The Lonelier Moon
Dias de los Muertos
Movie House
Canaries
Gacela of a Wedding Day
Her Constellations
What Language |
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What
Language
for Jade
I will give her a heron feather
pressed in the folds of a blank book
intended for the longest love poem.
A promise.
In what language do I write
the words that fit her?
I am an uneducated man
feeling out the letters
of a new vocabulary.
I have come to learn
the lexicon of our open field
and speak the petals
of a shared wish,
the circling red tail of desire,
the stones of forgiveness.
I will learn a language
to ask for the wings
of her eyes to fly with me
to the tall grass of our new home. |
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