Winter (serene mode)

by The rose constants

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See the chamomile grow brown, stuff your coat. Brew a tea of down,
when winter comes, it comes without a sound,

and if pride swallows up the law—a clause with mane replacing jaw…
I couldn’t say that I didn’t see what I never saw:

Not the oven made of snow, keeping cold the ritual dough,
when you said you loved me, was I supposed to know?

Parsley wine, with salted figs, you came to me or reversed was it?
When you said I knew, of course I didn’t know a thing

about words, like days, which, loaded, contain themselves over and over
—I gave you flowers and you gave me roses

to hold in vases or guitars, each one sufficiently apart
from all the rest, or all its own, who might seek to them record.

So open up the hand, forgiveness. Ask never ‘why,’ instead, ‘what is this,’
if you can trust or even touch what, made of us, this solid mist is…

Teach me phrases by the window, the glass is sour, real, and brittle,
and it isn’t love, but it isn’t some thing else than what love is though.

Interred, the mercury veins in wood, where pines stow books of fissured soot,
to understand, to close our eyes, these things are good.

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released January 30, 2022

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