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Now reading
For Sharon & Don
i
That hibiscus (kona,
DOUBLE PINK, a
yellow slip to say)
you gave us
works:
meaning you
gave it with
feelings hard to speak of, so
spoken of, and we took it, still
nothing to say. But
it's here by our bed
in a clay pot,
both blossoms
going fast now. Meaning
only, we
have it now, by
our bed, will
have it,
pinker yet for the wordlessness of
its going, and have you.
ii
What we have most's not
earned, 's given us
by some
grace; we
pick it up and read,
remember badly when the book's
away, but it was there
to hand, is to
mind, a way
made to take and
keep what we'd not thought
to ask, hibiscus.