Friday, April 23, 2010

Michiko Nogami


Michiko Nogami (1946-1982)

Is she more apparent because
she is not anymore forever?
Is her whiteness more white
because she was the color of pale honey?
A smokestack making the sky more visible.
A dead woman filling the whole world.
Michiko said,
“The roses you gave me kept me awake
With the sound of their petals falling.”

Jack Gilbert

Posted over on Tweetspeak Poetry

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