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out of jet or the swallowtail butterfly captured in a Lucite box.
What I don’t point out to you is the vase of roses from a new hybrid, fluttery blooms with the sub- tlety of silk and a dusting of cocoa on petals that frame a molten center. Not everyone sees them. Those that see them will find their shoes wiped clean of mud and filled with peppermints when it is time to go.
If you walk to the creek to view the fire-scarred cedar root wad, you may pick a fig or sit below the vine maple on a park bench next to Garden Buddha. This is where the museum opens the vault. Green meets sky.
holy also
filters
through the fissures
Knoll’s work has appeared in Calyx, Windfall, Antiphon, Silver Birch Press, and Minerva Rising Press’s blog, as well as in anthologies from Minerva Rising Press, Red Claw Press, and Poetry Box Press.
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Aquanomy
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painted board, resin 25.5'' x 53''
By Sooo-z Mastropietro