Sugar

Flower sweet
Flower whole
Flower bleached
On collar bone.

Petals fold
Toward the marrow.
Stamens pulse
Shoulder's sparrow.

Exhumation.
Spring is here.
Jubilation.
Nonna, dear.

Floury apron.
Palm of hand.
Palm of heart
Reaching, reaching

Through the dark.
Toward my heart.
Toward the corm,
Buried deep

To keep me warm.


3/05/19