It’s time to promote poetry again:

This week’s poem is from Jeffrey Holman:

Safe keeping

People like me
They keep in
safe keeping
people like me
the old and
the frail
flowers that fade
are still for
the weeping
in baskets they’re
dried and then
laid
people like me
in hives of
the waiting
the wisest of wise
the use of
no use
are parked in
these buildings
nobody sees
are propped in
chambers of
wax like bees
people like me
are not dying
like flies
the flies are
too busy
to die
the flies iridescent
the flies at
the bedside
are lively and
seemingly
thrive

12.4.20