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Pass by the showy rose,
blabbing open,
suckling a shiny beetle;
pass by the changeless diamond
that falls asleep in shadow—
this love is a lichen,
alga and fungus made one fleck,
feeding on what it feeds,
growing slightly faster than stone
into a patch of gray lace,
a double thumbprint,
its bloom distinguishable, with practice,
from its dormant phase,
crocheting its singular habit
over time, a faithful stain
bound to its home,
etching on the unmoved rock
the only rune it knows.
Source: Poetry (October 2008).
Biography
Sarah Lindsay is the author of Primate Behavior (1997), Mount Clutter (2002)—both from Grove Press—and Twigs and Knucklebones (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).
Poems by Sarah Lindsay
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SUBJECT Relationships, Love, Nature, Romantic Love, Desire
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