Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Shopfronts done up in wrapping paper
never to reopen.  Sanctuary streets
closed to all future traffic.
A dream of perfect silence and repose.
Distilling fury seated
in the center of the rose.  A canvas
bleak as stone, and just as beautiful.
A zone of forced fecundity
bleeding jagged fragments of the past.
The blossom cased in unreflective glass.

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