Dialogue of a Young Man and a Hibiscus

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DIALOGUE OF A YOUNG MAN AND A HIBISCUS


Young man
with eyes
of wren feathers
what have you
done to lose
so much hair,
and skin, so
many teeth,
so much blood?
What do you
see reflected
off the cattle's eyes
so far
in the distance?
"I have
been walking
for so long:
the blue cotton flower
breaks under my skin,
the thorns of the wild rose
crawl over my sleep's empty legs.
One evening
I met
a man who sleeps always
with his face
to the ground,
he told me
he waits
for the sound
of my skull
to collapse
under the earth."


Alan Britt

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