Thursday, April 7, 2011

The Midnight-Blooming Pigtail Flower


The midnight-blooming pigtail flower
only blossoms for an hour

and never in the presence of another
midnight-blooming pigtail flower: no mother,

brother, father, lover, uncle, aunt or child.
It’s enough to drive a pigtail flower wild.

It’s not that she can’t propagate
without the slightest prospect of a date:

no, she could live with that.
She’d simply like to have a little chat.






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