Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Lioness

Humans are all the same; Change is too expensive; Mercurial we will remain.


Yet you will wrap the hair of your young
cub in dandelions: her name is July.


The soft apple shape of your own
infant face, lying in the lap of gold
fur, your mother, the cleft-lipped
lioness.

Paw through the roots of fig trees,


to be cont'd .

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