April 4: Marie Ponsot's "Transport"
April 4th, 2010
For Easter day, the simple grace of a Marie Ponsot poem.
Transport
The rose, for all its behavior,
is smaller than the lifelove it stands for,
only briefly brightening,
and even its odor
only a metaphor.
Or so we suppose
just as we suppose the savior
we employ or see next door
is only some hired man
gardening.
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