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April 8, 2012

NaPoWriMo – glisten

here you are again
in a crowded room

night-blooming flowers
pale & radiant

walking in a city
you pass your destination

flaming in sunlight
sparks on the stamens

again & again
you lose yourself

dew glistens
on veined petals

wrapped in a cocoon
that will not open

chrysalis infected
with wasps

NaPoWriMo

One response to “NaPoWriMo – glisten”

000april

April 10, 2012 at 5:52 am

I like the way you have chosen the sounds. Almost is if water drips inside a cavern.
Nasty thought about the wasps attacking the butterfly.

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In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

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