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Cut Flowers

from Dark Blue by Steven Lambke

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My friends, I’d like to thank you
for these things that you have brought me,
a cut of lilac from the neighbour,
and a painting for the wall.
And all these pills and coffee,
and a switch of birch to lash me,
the tea you said brought visions,
and the lavender you grew from seed.

In the silence I heard the engine turning
like the universe undressing.
The tattoo on the shoulder says
some things no one should see.
I put my ticket between the pages
of a borrowed book of poems
and I stab my pen through paper:
“’tis the song I wrote for thee”.

Don’t bring cut flowers to my grave
whatever place will mark me will be wild
Don’t bring cut flowers to my grave
whatever place will mark me will be wild

Sometimes I’ve been reminded
of the statue in the garden,
in the shadows, half forgotten,
and the stubborn growth of weeds.
There’s a black cat on the fence post
and a rat down in the cellar,
but the wind will light a fire
from the last still burning ember.

Don’t bring cut flowers to my grave
whatever place will mark me will be wild
Don’t bring cut flowers to my grave
whatever place will mark me will be wild

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from Dark Blue, released March 29, 2019

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