After the anniversary

[Philatone]

V. 2 all present tense

after the anniversary


Our vase is empty
like a womb.

Petals limp from the counter
as her water is unhooked

and released into the sink.
We find her a cabinet

to stay where dust grays
every curve of glass

behind a thick door to silence
the thirst that will come;

day or night,
shadow hollows her stomach

into a quarry
where roses once opened,

blossomed, kneeled,
and hung.




original
edit: changed "our" to "Our" (aish, billy)


Our vase is empty
like a womb.

Petals limped from the counter
as her water was unhooked

and released into the sink.
We found her a cabinet

to stay where dust grays
every curve of glass

behind a thick door to silence
the thirst that will come;

day or night,
shadow hollows her stomach

into a quarry
where roses once opened,

blossomed, kneeled,
and hung.