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how many petals does a forget-me-not have?
my memory is a bit like standing under the br
anches of the Spring Snow Tree, catching eve
ry of its perfect 6-petal blossoms and starting
each time hopefully with He Loves Me, until
by the chill of dusk i have remembered by Six
and forgotten by One so many times that each
shuffling step kicks up a soft swirl of lazy fra
grant rememberie, every sixth knowflake of
which alights with the pragmatics of the pred
ictable, cherry blossom, Not. (i may be odd, b
ut that number is endlessly, inexorably even.)
how many petals does a forget-me-not have?
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1 comment:
this is the kind of piece of writing that e.e.cummings would be proud of.
beautiful.
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