Tagged: stem

mama’s peonies

mama’s peonies
arrive as if on cue – one, two,
three, four, five – she brings

each stem in from late April to
May, so it blooms just for her
.
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when melancholy

when melancholy
grows leggy, be ready to
pinch back, harvest the

tips of every stem, maybe
refrigerate for later
.
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remember that year

remember that year
when one stem of a peony
cost an entire

piano lesson, how young
we were back then, how present
.
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with each summer

with each summer
breeze, warmth
walks, glides
down the manhattan
side of your body,
tapping out
a string
of morse code –
a blues ballad
with twin ellipses
.
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