Factory Girl Poem by Maxwell Bodenheim

Factory Girl



Why are your eyes like dry brown flower-pods,
Still, gripped by the memory of lost petals?
I feel that if I touched them
They would crumble to falling brown dust
And you would stand with blindness revealed.
Yet, you would not shrink, for your life
Has been long since memorized,
And eyes would only melt out against its high walls.
Besides, in the making of boxes
Sprinkled with crude forget-me-nots,
One is curiously blessed if ones eyes are dead.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: life
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Maxwell Bodenheim

Maxwell Bodenheim

Mississippi / United States
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