A Crown of Dust

(a cento)


2

                I only
borrowed this dust

pleasure
like a little animal

Scraps of lists, a paper flower

I've got questions of my own but
let's give a little

between here and gone,
a distance of hard words

you cannot dream with your mouth

Did we falter when love took us
the way that soap loves an airborne virus

we are closer
than secret


Line sources:
Stanley Kunitz, Fiona Templeton,
Elisa Gabbert, Adrienne Rich, 
Douglas Kearney, Keith S. Wilson,
Sappho, francine j. harris, Yalie
Saweda Kamara