maybe "or if we've gone" for the end there.
but this is charming
KS
On 31/10/2007, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Snails and Belladonnas
>
> Go, little snails, from my garden wall,
> where youšre climbing this evening
>
> between one moist green meal
> and your next. Go, in this bucket,
>
> through the sweet evening air,
> not to an early death, though
>
> from my point of view you deserve it;
> no, go as I release you,
>
> over the road where mild October
> has seen fresh grass at the park edge.
>
> Feast there and multiply, if you must,
> but spare the belladonna lilies we
>
> secretly inserted near the railing.
> Though not flowering this season,
>
> maybe one year their bare spare spikes
> of white and pink will surprise us,
>
> or if Išve gone, please others.
>
>
> October/November 1007
>
> Max Richards
> Doncaster, Victoria
>
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