The heart won’t make its point.
Why not let you go out into the sun
where blossoms burst
and rush like oxycontin?
The chickadee’s precision in the pear
chastises my ear
to clearer witness than the cat-
piss stink these beauties flush
into the air. What
would I have you say
before getting in the car? What
would I have you do
for me? Do you see
the dogwood’s sensitivity—
all these deep red crepe cups
candelabraed up
from Mrs. Abraham Malherbe’s
lichen-lepered tree?
They skewer the sky
with the austere
ash-pointed spurs
of why they’re here
no matter where they wish,
or if they wish, to be.
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