28 March, 2012

qamariya

the images of true peace
have nothing
to do with permanence:
lianas
on a bomber window make a half-moon silhouette
of sunlight, leaves, and geometry
on the wall here
in my imagined house which is
made of soft memory
nothing i can build (or
you can build) will ever be
a bird

Peter Greene

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