Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Valentine's Day


Shards of vodka
bottle flower
in the dead middle
of the lawn, where
the Christmas tree, prone,

wreathed in burnt lights,
points, a compass needle,
past the curb, toward
the low brown hills.

By Mark Jackley

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