The Epilogue Entries – No.18

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TO FORCE A BLOOM

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to force a bloom
is to falsify
the natural expansion
of our arms;

to open and hold
with weak petals
the burdens of days
we were not meant to live.

but to wait

wait

for incubation’s
promised plume –
pained and pressed
behind the bud –

o then
is our reward.

full of leaf, fragrance, and color
we shall come

temporarily born
and flaming.

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