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Diane Klammer
Blossom in the Basement

(for Hannah)


dried rose petals
flower cards
fell out
of old records

moved

to make room
for new life

out of light
grows a bouquet
from dark closet space unearthed
what a bright picture
passageway

flower cups
and vases of roses
are carried down

a

garden blooms
in
the cellar window well

a
young flower moves in
with her floral perfume

a
room comes alive
opening beyond flower curtains

vegetarian cooking
bunches of clothing
rearranging in the laundry


a

living wonder

falls asleep

underneath smooth petal sheets
Message in Indian Summer

The season shows off psychedelics,
shouts “I'm not going quietly.
I'm not going as matter of course.
I'm rioting.”

Collect:
straw relics,
aspen gold,
chestnut horses.
Respect.

Stall cold.
Be seasonably fair.

Behold :
a final reflection in the lake.
Strength, that's what it will take.
Celebrate before the fall.
Disrobe before the chill.

I see fire before winter in your hair.
Do not leave from a distant hill.
Do not leave at all.

I whisper to distant air...



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