Flower Shapes
Flowers in the shapes of cozy houses, fountains in the shapes of windows opening onto gardens, roadways over bridges in the sh…
Aesthetic
AESTHETICÂ
Poetry is what can’t be said
any other way
Verse is thoughts searching for poetry
8/23/2004 (from Cooked Oranges — image of creature by Salihah Moore, Lion of the Sea)
Categories: Poems
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