Wilted wildflowers
double cleave with Michael Stalcup
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1 min readMay 15, 2017
it’s a fool’s game:
We look for love in
online memories
wonders found, then lost again,
Flowers cut and given once
only take away our dreams,
perfect in defeat
While roots send fresh bouquets every year after
death’s dark insolence
This piece is part of the Cleave Chain collaboration on Chalkboard. To continue the cleave chain, copy either of my parts of the cleave from the original posts:
The base poem can be found here:
