Is there any feeling better than the entertaining of something new
and something better, if even for a moment?
Flirtation - Rita Dove
After all, there’s no need
to say anything
at first. An orange, peeled
and quartered, flares
like a tulip on a wedgewood plate
Anything can happen.
Outside the sun
has rolled up her rugs
and night strewn salt
across the sky. My heart
is humming a tune
I haven’t heard in years!
Quiet’s cool flesh—
let’s sniff and eat it.
There are ways
to make of the moment
a topiary
so the pleasure’s in
walking through.
This is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteYou know sometimes you read a line of someone else's poem, and think "I'd give anything to have written that"?
That's how I feel about "An orange, peeled / and quartered, flares / like a tulip on a wedgewood plate
Beautiful.
Yes it was that image that first attracted me to this poem, lovely! I know, I'm envious too! So simple yet beautiful. Love the whole feeling of the poem. :)
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