04-17-2023, 05:50 AM
The moon is a burden
circling the earth,
making waves that slaughter kittens
in Hawaii.
Passion is extinct in the city,
the millstone is too dull to grain
in the village, and the farmer
loathes his puppy.
Everyone sacred has fled
to the mountains,
waiting in icy caves
for a savage miracle
to erupt from the earth.
I worry about the rose
I planted on my mother's grave -
love does not grant immortality,
it is a devastating sacrifice
wrenching tears out of fools.
circling the earth,
making waves that slaughter kittens
in Hawaii.
Passion is extinct in the city,
the millstone is too dull to grain
in the village, and the farmer
loathes his puppy.
Everyone sacred has fled
to the mountains,
waiting in icy caves
for a savage miracle
to erupt from the earth.
I worry about the rose
I planted on my mother's grave -
love does not grant immortality,
it is a devastating sacrifice
wrenching tears out of fools.