Friday, October 1, 2010

The Onion and I

Would it be enough

to make for you a soup?

I had so much to tell you-

but unlike the onion

whose scent grows stronger

as it falls to pieces-

i see you

and I forget what I had to say.

2 comments:

  1. I had to read this and read this. I read it aloud to Charlie. I adore it.

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  2. thank you! its a poem i wrote a few years back, but i have revised it a bit and i think it is at it's best right. now.

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