Binjin Promenade
(or The Passage of Beautiful Women)
New Year's:
Fearlessly adorn
Ivory-painted masks of life
The vain courtesan,
Cherry Blossoms:
Who ushering spring
Shudders forth faint-heartedly
Blessings of herself,
Iris:
To find this tonguing
Outroars her short, bearded youth
As a snap, silence;
Chrysanthemum:
And yellowed, spindly
She awaits the too-soon frost—
Skeletal, but proud.
© 2003 Carolyn Gould
Saturday, November 24, 2007
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