Painting by Michael Parkes
Untitled: RK II
Young lionesses patrol
the living room. We
could live without florists,
but not without flowers.
The young lionesses
stretch along the sofas
leap onto the buffet, sleep
anywhere the sun lay.
Why is there so much
living in your life
the visitors demanded.
She answered trimming
the stems to fit the blue
glass vase or vaze,
it all just overflows
and the fridge is crowded too,
you should see the breadbox
and the poor telephone
has forgotten how to sleep.
Robert Kelly
Posted over on Charlotte Mandel
from MAY DAY: Poems 2003-2004
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