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"Investing my honesty in roses"


I invest my honesty in roses.
they blossom as natural
passions
which I use
to satisfy my obsessions.

a rose
resembling a face
lasting the time
of my patience.
red exchangeable
rose equivalent
to a menace.

immodest rose
of ephemeral shapes,
shining with pride,
body spreading out
all its surfaces.



erminia  25 December 2001