- Gift, and: Bible Study, and: Omitting Beauty and Green
Gift
Here's something Ihave two of, someone
said, which meantmuch, and then
someone withouta word handed
me the onething she had—
and I couldbarely, in my one
head, hold it.
Bible Study
How does a five-year-old learn
to play dead?Under what
sun can sheunlearn it?
Omitting Beauty and Green
after Hikmet
My hands advance, the lightis hungry, a road through
my eyes runs. The world mustsomewhere be blooming
enough. I like beinginside mulberries, captured.
The point is the window.The sunny infirmary
can't smell the carnations.Beside hopeful trees, the prison
surrenders.