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Nasturtiums
I eat its red flower
this afternoon spread
on toast with cheese, thinking of you in this light.
And you far off— another country another woman another life.
I eat another one
without you.
A strange muscle-beast you are: tongue— crucial for taste and articulation
for what could have been too— the two of us
two tongues, two flowers.
Two nothings now.
Stern is the author of a full-length poetry collection, But Today Is Different (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014) and a chapbook, Another Word For Love (Finishing Line Press, 2011). Books are also available on Amazon and other sites.
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