Lily
You were my heraldic fleur-de-lis
but the dictionary says
you were a large trumpet
shaped flower,
bulbous,
that you lived
lily-livered
on a tall stem,
gloomy.
but the dictionary says
you were a large trumpet
shaped flower,
bulbous,
that you lived
lily-livered
on a tall stem,
gloomy.
You still send three petalled
messages to me;
in your coat,
in your arms,
the pure white
of freshly baked rolls.
messages to me;
in your coat,
in your arms,
the pure white
of freshly baked rolls.
15 years old, 1939, White cliffs of Dover, on a ferry dressed
as Heidi, Man in Nazi uniform on the train also in disguise. Both on the deck of the ferry...story.
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