Saturday, May 28, 2011





your garden




do roses 
bloom at 
night? 


caressing 
a stem in 
darkness 
a thorn 
pierces
my finger. 


biting my 
comfort, I 
hear color
in mid-
night; 


feel 
blood blooming 
warm into 
my palm. 




Poem ©2011 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo by Donald Lim
Posted by at

6 comments:

  1. Brian MillerMay 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM

    nice...love the noir feel to this and the pic...rather graphic novel...the rose and the blood..very nice.

    ReplyDelete
  2. JJ Roa RodriguezMay 29, 2011 at 5:04 AM

    great work...

    ReplyDelete
  3. helenMay 29, 2011 at 5:17 AM

    You made the implausible feel possible ....

    ReplyDelete
  4. Julien HakymMay 29, 2011 at 6:15 AM

    wow..
    hey, I hv post the photo
    4 my next post in ur e-mail!

    ReplyDelete
  5. JJ Roa RodriguezMay 29, 2011 at 7:18 AM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Cheryl CatoMay 29, 2011 at 1:53 PM

    Nice words and I agree with Brian the pic reminds me of something in a graphic novel.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)