Summer Suit

 

Let us reflect on
the phenomenon
of form when it is warm:

its check against

the slippery fluidity
of hot humidity:

its circumspect agenda

to hold up and hide the rot –
to keep the tulip in its spot –

correct – erect – within

a vase for several days
so no one will suspect

how close to entropy it is:

the crystal that contains
the business

of decline: the vine

on which reclines
the skin that barely

holds within

the runny plummy fruit:
the summer suit.








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