Festive Roses

Dan thrown off his bicycle in Hanoi "wonderful new gift involving pain" better opening to bliss Ile St. Louis artist advice you must be careful Pulling together a scene for a party everybody in Alfred flight booked March 5 a week to rehearse costume then do it jump-start rehearsals Love outing roses tapas in McMinnville ferry across river home collapse sleep another whole day goes poetry meeting keyboard press release stew trash out relax read "Middlesex" sunny warm then dark cold imagine vine-covered trellises protect from sun blast heat imagine gazebo dancing on the lawn festive roses roving deer failed to eat sit me down turn me on boot me up letters merge words flow like painter no need for thought form for my poem