SILK
Come let us be silk together,
web woven whole
comes the silk.
Come – curl and uncurl like lilies,
columbine, orchids –
now column, now labellum.
Come, petals like bells together,
chime and peal, be music.
We are the wine of apples and pears.
© 1997 Roberta Star Hirshson
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