A new poem, and I can't sleep.
JENNIE LEFT ME DAFFODILS
16 March 2008
The daffodils my roommate left on my desk
in a mason jar she half-filled with water,
a fresh yellow bloom each afternoon for ten days,
I could smell every night before I slept
and although they are now dead, they are still the same yellow,
and they are open.
16 March 2008
The daffodils my roommate left on my desk
in a mason jar she half-filled with water,
a fresh yellow bloom each afternoon for ten days,
I could smell every night before I slept
and although they are now dead, they are still the same yellow,
and they are open.