{"id":89,"date":"2005-12-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2005\/12\/a-solstice-rose.html"},"modified":"2005-12-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T12:00:00","slug":"a-solstice-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2005\/12\/a-solstice-rose.html","title":{"rendered":"A Solstice Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I prop my drooping rose
(its toppled head
hung on the limp stalk
of its spent neck)<\/p>\n

first, on a wishful finger:
tilting the vase this way
and that, for a point
of balance that won’t endure;<\/p>\n

then, on a twist-tie’s wrapped
wire, fished from a drawer
to fashion a spiral collar.
There, my dear; linger;<\/p>\n

I’ve bought you a day’s grace
Drink up, stand tall. Trap
in the shady overlap
of your milky petals, some pale<\/p>\n

December sun (its pearl
like yours, ephemeral)
as I’ve trapped your nodding head
awake, in a brace of metal.<\/p>\n

–by Robyn Sarah<\/a>, from the book “A Day’s Grace”<\/a><\/p>\n

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