December 14, 2003

THE ROSE

Someone said "feelings"
and I began to think.

Rose colored slabs of marble
ascending on square columns
butress a city of stone.

Someone said "feelings"
and I began to think.

Rose colored slabs of marble
ascending on square columns
butress a city of stone.

Steel girders wrap us in a cage
as silent as eternity.

On the secretary's desk
a pasture rose in water
escapes the eye.

An old lady sits on the boardwalk
in the September sun.
I know Coney Island is only in the mind
but I walk in the sand, feel the late
summer breeze on my face
and smell the ocean once again.

Posted by larrykeegan at December 14, 2003 10:31 PM