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  • The American Poetry Review

    IN BLOOM

    Mar 01, 2019 2 minutes
    MEGAN KAMINSKI

    To attract congruence wavelength to sine reaching
    virtue scented rosy blushing to bloom
    a metaphor more than metaphor
    purple to red adaptable
    leaf or blossom
    stem or spindle
    cotton floss guided through eye
    pressed through fabric stretched onto frame
    each stitch a silo in western fields
    a foray into skin

    furred paws hold an acorndistancing to be held anothermore dear more aroma of leafdays crispinginto October into creases around eyespromises and panderthe night opening just change

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