Smoke rose impatiently
through pearly blossoms,
like the prayers of the saints,

and the tonic of flowers
begged him to overthrow
darker persuasions.

From a faded tulip chair, he
looked up at me and said,
"Why seek ye the living among the dead?"
He inhaled the light and fragrant day, and, sitting back, rested mute bones against impossibility.




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