sugar longings of childhood
burn, their dying fumes lifting
into memory in parcels and bits
as clouds covering  the past,
a formed entity,  forgotten, but for dreams.
the flower emerging from the upturned earth
casts its new face to the sun
and feeds on the corpse of its past,
now forgotten to time, 
exhumed as art.


 


    veristes by Sieber, Kammen, Fulton and Schatz