Tuesday, April 5, 2011

What Is Left


Inside me
Is a pocket
Of glass
Refusing to break.

No one can touch
Between color
And breath
Residing there.

It is secret –

Something like blossom fire
Or dewy expiration.

It holds me together –

This private sanctuary.

It is not solitude I fear,
But loss of what is still precious –
The crimson flutter within
That keeps me whole.

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