E MAIL TO DAMNISO LOPEZ
(This place)
This place
Of hollyhocks
And holly
Is as complex
As silence.
Homer would have put a God
Or Goddess as gatekeeper. Perhaps
An immaculate conceived divinity
Such as Athena, and bleached away
The colors.
Richard Crashaw would have
Dressed the flowers
In a nun's habit.
Wallace Stevens would
Have circulated apparitional.
Silver-white girls in a fog.
Girls speaking Spanish.
I will leave the garden alone,
Let it be
As is.
Duane Locke
Posted over on Interpoetry
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