Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FLOWER GIRL, by WALKER WINSLOW


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FLOWER GIRL, by                    
First Line: Old women with unflowerlike voices
Last Line: And her voice is weeds in the distance.
Subject(s): Flowers


Old women with unflowerlike voices
hawk their flowers
and the sound is weeds against the
murmurous morning.
The laden baskets on their heads,
receding into the drab of age,
are blossoms on a dwarf pine
potted sadly.

But the flower in the young girl's hair
blooms on sensuous silence,
and seventeen years of stem
hold it with regal difference
for a lover's crushing.

My heart is part of the coin
that pays the old woman
for the flowers I take ...
and her voice is weeds in the distance.





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