flower boxes
Anthony Lucero
before there were nothing
but seeds and the few that came
up were gotten by the birds or the
weather or something and then
evan's wife laurie gave me
a poinsettia she claimed would
not die but it died within a matter
of days and i told her so and then i-
lene gave me a sunflower which was
doing just fine but then i had to go
out of town and when i came back the first
time it was lamost dead and when i came
back the second time it was long since dead
and so i didn't plant nothing after that
and one day i was coming down the alley up
the alley i should say and i looked up
at my windows and there they were those two
little coffins the wooden bones of a poinsettia
on the left and the brown carcass of a sunflower
on the right and my blinds were shut tight and
i thought yes that is where i live and i walked
up the stairs opened the door closed it and
got in bed and i thought about christmas and summer
and everything in between.
