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Open Poetry #35
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Pilgrimage
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0 posted 2005-05-24 03:19 PM


...and kiss the stone


I’ve brought a wreath
made of thistles,
wrapped in my flesh
and tied up with years.

I lay it at your feet
and kiss the stone.

Stunted salt cedar
twitches in the rising wind.

I must go tend my garden;
the hyssop wilts
and the spurge is dry.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)
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1 posted 2005-05-24 03:27 PM

wow...
this feels so sad...
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2 posted 2005-05-24 03:28 PM

ohh...Nan, I felt this one, deeply.
Very well done!
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