Heirloom

In your grey book of dust
you have pressed and forgotten
a wayward flower–

rose-red in the hardwood grooves,
blooming at your wrist–

the geography, the history, the
charts, the graphs–

aster-pink in the porcelain cove,
no stemming this tide–

no unlearning
the facts,
now.

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