Do not
ask me
these questions you do
not understand
Besides so
they plunge
and grind
in the marrow
Why my flowers
did not bloom
last spring
Why there were
petals
on the sidewalk
©Julie Bolitho.“the woman’s garden,” Poem. The Offbeat: Tell Me Everything. Michigan State University Press: Vol. 7 (Spring 2007), p. 3.
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