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"Vaseful of Wild Roses"

A long bud lets a petal fall-
an early sacrifice.
The eye, a vase,
can't keep the flowers whole.

The shape we know as rose
is their undoing: they
pass through without stopping for
the word to form. They lean

toward us and away, as if
we were the reason
they let go.