Monday, January 29, 2018

matryoshka

I am the whole set of dolls
All at once
for you
I’ve been
Carefully plucking flowers from
My belly
Each year
Let’s pay them no mind
They are all locked inside
The graying sunlight
And the grass
And me
And they are all right here
In your arms already-
All of the characters I have harvested from my heart

That ever loved anyone else.