Monday, May 3, 2021

Sub Rosa Madrigal by Lisa Russ Spaar

Sub Rosa Madrigal 

I know time lives in me
& not the other way around.
Many mornings it wants out,
silver crevasses round the eyes.
 
Or in corpse of midnight, also,
picking poor heart’s padlock, spending . . .
but wait.—What does it mean to spend
the days my love is flown
 
if I believe time lives in us, & not
the other way around? Clippers
in hand beneath an iron arbor,
wielding insect spray, I pause
 
in a bower that has blown with eros.
I mean roses. Fresh as flesh. What time is.



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