Monday, June 18, 2012

Only Once

Did your lips quiver
                                               or shiver?
           like a star hanging dry?
                                               or like sopping fabric
                                                              hanging from the clothes line.

Did your wings clip the trees
                                               or the breeze?
           like a red balloon?
Or a fleeting steel plane
           boarding too soon.


           Which reservations are formed?
           By you?
                       or your parents.


            And why aren't the kids' menus on the table?
            next to the blue ketchup and sugar cubes?


If nothing else is forgotten,
leave the homemade tent
in the bedroom,

that'll be the only innocence not missed.

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