Green Peas at Stake

Primroses

(to an old friend)

Primroses exploring
the vast ocean of friendship
and the simple life;
drinking a bucket of water,
improvising abundance,
crowded together,
inside hanging pots,
on the balcony, Apartment 2A,
at Place du Tertre, Montmartre.

A visual keepsake.
hooking itself
on the altar of recollection.
The flesh of bare walls
throbbing with artsy aroma.

Questioning the presence of shadows,
in cheerful quavering lines,
young-girl-laughter,
our careless wisdom.

While you sleep,
I spill off to the river,
scavenging for turpentine dreams
through slumbering shapes
along the bank.

No way we'll be leaving,
for we'll stay inside memories,
like petals drifting unto the same pile;
now hovering over letters we send,
we never have been closer.

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"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy

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