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meets — nothing — renews
itself in metal or porcelain —
whither ? It ends —
But if it ends
the start is begun
so that to engage roses
becomes a geometry —
Sharper, neater, more cutting
figured in majolica —
the broken plate
glazed with a rose
Somewhere the sense
makes copper roses
steel roses —
The rose carried weight of love
but love is at an end — of roses
If is at the edge of the
petal that love waits
Crisp, worked to defeat
laboredness — fragile
plucked, moist, half-raised
cold, precise, touching
