Madeleine Lee (b. 1962)
SELECTED POEMS
an excerpt from inklings
dark green
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a winter sort of green
a somewhat dried green
an uncertain green
not-sure-when-spring-comes greenwhat happened
happened in spring
blossomed in summer
ripened and dropped in fallnow hibernates
perhaps for good
in the permafrost
of the soul
by Madeleine Lee
from impermanence (2023)