Thursday 5 April 2018

BLEEDING PETALS

PROLOGUE

Petal
Pulverized
It lays translucent.
Once Virginal white
Now stained with impure grey.
It’s smoothness
Destroyed
By abrading gravel.
Stray foot falls,
Imprint it further.
Surviving buds
Not yet fallen,
Shed dew drops of sorrow
For petals lost.
(Martine August 2011)
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