Thursday 8 January 2009

Anemone flowers

Anemone flowers
Dripping blood.
Don’t touch them!
Not even to dig them out.
Let’s raise a fire

I planted them myself
Thinking they were chrysanthemums.
Now the green swallows the rain
To change the blood of her lover
To bloody Anemones,
Venus was mistaken.

-1991

1 comment:

  1. Anemone flowers
    Dripping blood.
    Don’t touch them!
    Not even to dig them out.
    Let’s raise a fire

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