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Therese Gleason: Found Rose: Antique Rose Garden

March 4, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

South Carolina Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens
 
I.
 
Rosa X, small and hardy, plundered
from family cemetery.
You’re a climber, limber
on the trellis, tiny pink petals
brown and papery at the edges. Rose rustlers,
skilled in the archaeology of flowers,
plucked you from your grave bed: 
a resurrection.
 
II.
 
White Virginia, desiccated
and yellow between pages of a notebook
full of letters to the dead. A daughter, 
unschooled in goodbyes, 
picked you from a burial shroud: 
a remembrance.

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: Therese Gleason

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