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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Skirt of Printed Sunflowers / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:53:55 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>> Skirt of Printed Sunflowers
>
>> Girl of these woods and chemicals
>> we labor for the black pigs of my poetry
>> for the bone gods of the sea.
>
>> For the secret rose you keep for me
>> under the skirts of printed sunflowers.
>
>> There is a hollering and someone has a
>> dog that barks
>> your eyes have that recently crying look
>> and your hair seems as soft
>> and your smell as sweet
>> as before.
>
>> As that last time you came to my door
>> in a skirt of printed pastel sunflowers.
>
>> But it has been seen that you look
>> straight through
>> I fear that you are already gone.
>
>> That night you tried to die in my arms
>> is something that I will not forget
>> or make sense of
>> you and your skirt of bright printed sunflowers.
>
>> I think you no longer see anything
>> and God knows what kind
>> of love is this?
>
>> You told me that you never stopped loving me.
>> But you could never return to me
>> in your skirt of printed sunflowers.
>
>> -Will Dockery
>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> Corrected version....
>
>
> Another of your finest, most lovely poems Sir Doc.....!

Thanks again, Zod.

😏