Showing posts with label Resilient. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resilient. Show all posts

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Lift (For My Son)


And this, my very heart,

is the weight of water
like blood
bending the blooms,

smoke and mist graying tulips,
ash on butterflies’ wings.

My very heart! We bury
our dead selves
swollen but dry,
and in this come alive—the lift

in rain
and rain and rain again.

My very heart, see!
Instead of the weight, the gray, the ash—

the bloom,
the color,
the wings.


© 2020 Jennifer Wagner