By Andi Yates
The Portland Upside
February 2010
The Portland Upside
February 2010
Photo by Sitta Cole
The blooms
Drop
And love stops
growing
When there are toomanyroots in a small container.
(capture) love - [cage it] and love will faint in the
breathless air, grow brittle and crumble to an empty dust
that falls away, lost…. Forgotten in its own network of
entwining
Beginnings
and
Endings
Better to cradle love on a woven frame of no preconceived
boundaries. Let it send its new shoots to the warmth of the
sun and new roots to places unseen. Watch it slip through
the weave of its holder and mold a cover so complete
yet…….
Free to express and to move as it must to flourish to bloom
And bloom again…………………
<an attempted tribute to ee cummings>
_____
Andi was born in Louisville, KY, and migrated to Oregon in 1974. She found her poetic voice at 17 and has been writing lyrics, poems and short stories ever since.
Drop
And love stops
growing
When there are toomanyroots in a small container.
(capture) love - [cage it] and love will faint in the
breathless air, grow brittle and crumble to an empty dust
that falls away, lost…. Forgotten in its own network of
entwining
Beginnings
and
Endings
Better to cradle love on a woven frame of no preconceived
boundaries. Let it send its new shoots to the warmth of the
sun and new roots to places unseen. Watch it slip through
the weave of its holder and mold a cover so complete
yet…….
Free to express and to move as it must to flourish to bloom
And bloom again…………………
<an attempted tribute to ee cummings>
_____
Andi was born in Louisville, KY, and migrated to Oregon in 1974. She found her poetic voice at 17 and has been writing lyrics, poems and short stories ever since.
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