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Vase Poppies

Vase Poppies

By Jennifer Scappettone Jennifer Scappettone

Lavenderish dusk

strapped for stays,

pomegranates under the rubberband

chucked for a glass Oz,

letdown

splayed by the pillar-shelves

to page upon the Ottoman:

his talk has wrought suit

amid citrus gapes

and pall dunked in the bowl

and grated sage

or cleaved clear paleo-pines.

Postgeist, upcast

California upon weed,

what banker yields

so fragrant a cant

as this vagrant cant?

Jennifer Scappettone, “Vase Poppies” from an unpublished manuscript. Copyright © 2010 by Jennifer Scappettone. Reprinted by permission of Jennifer Scappettone.

Source: Unpublished (2010)

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Poet Jennifer Scappettone

POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern

Subjects Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture

Poetic Terms Free Verse