of a wet
pink
rose
on the beach
after
afternoon showers
wave blithely
in the salty breeze.
They open,
and the amber
stamen
stares
straight at the
sun
It
has emerged
from ashen clouds
which
run with the wind—
and
a flock of swallows
scatters
like blown
petals
like
words
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