Still Life with Sacred Heart
You haven’t started sketching
but you’ve arranged the scene:
a broken loaf, a glass of noir,
the pomegranate, bruised,
crowned with a blackberry vine.
Tomorrow, we celebrate
another year together.
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Still Life with Sacred Heart
You haven’t started sketching
but you’ve arranged the scene:
a broken loaf, a glass of noir,
the pomegranate, bruised,
crowned with a blackberry vine.
Tomorrow, we celebrate
another year together.
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