petals posted by imani , Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 4:19 PM, in Labels: ars poetica

your hand the petals
of loneliness
borne or gravity and
distance
your gaze
magnify statues falling
silent as the dawn
hastens desolately
memory urges me to
forget seconds and spaces,
as wind and flame
devour images of you
drawn on arched,
hidden flowers that
exist in my dream.