Thursday, July 4, 2013

The Alpinist

She leaped back
over the fence. I thought
I'd get tangled but didn't
the wire easy light enough.
How I thought I was being used
to get them back together.

Faraway wildflowers
were what I studied
their names their illustrations
convenient on the deck of cards
their names in different languages.

2 comments:

  1. Two beautiful stanzas. Nicely disorientating first verse, until finding my feet in the faraway flowers with the help of a deck of cards. Yes, very nice indeed.

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  2. Thanks, Jonathan! I like what you said as an even better poem.

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