It's been an unstable season for Fuyu persimmons. Gifts from a friend's tree -- sweet & perfectly
persimmon in all ways. Fufu in the markets -- problematic. Poems are seasonal and open to the issues of being problematic. And please never forget a poem has a calyx and wondrous seeds. Yes, seeds.
Rearrangements
ReplyDeleteligaments on the old wounds
as well as
absolute buttons
so small, so eternally plastic,
used to be ivory or bone or thread--
stand up my painting in the guest room
look at it and wonder what it means
spices from the slave boats
huts made of straw