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Tiger Lilies or I’m Glad You Didn’t Marry Me By Jackson D. Moorman
Tiger Lilies or I'm Glad You Didn't Marry Me Of course, the email canceling our weddingleft details out. Rainbow of rusted screwdrivers and softworn sweatshirtsto separate. Unable to remember who bought which book. You let me keepthe mattre…
Of course, the email canceling our wedding left details out. Rainbow of rusted
screwdrivers and softworn sweatshirts to separate. Unable to remember who
bought which book. You let me keep the mattress - I was broke. We
threw out the best of it. What would it be like to stumble
upon that Brighton dumpster? Photograph in Honeypot Orchard - your cheeks
unpeeled apples, smooth moon shells from Julys down the Cape, October
maple pressed between pages like a pact, tiger lilies in a pot
signed by everyone who loved us. Part of my proposal: in a yard
new to us, I'd clear weeds, rocks, debris left by families past.
With careful hands lift the lilies from their blue pot. Deliver
them into broken earth; the gentlest promise. Oh,
how I loved to imagine myself this way. Sturdy as dogwoods
or the Narragansett dock you'd swim back to. Useless, what I could tell you
about tiger lilies: late summer bloom, six petals curling down like flames
of minor suns or orange jellyfish or luminous hands reaching into water.
Imagery far more romantic than what it takes to keep fragile things alive.
Never looked up how much to water, how often. What soil and sun makes
a good home. Left the labor of living to you. Sat, dreamed, scratched pretty
words. You went on a business trip, the lilies wilted. You returned,
the lilies bloomed. Ebb and flow dependent on your coming
and going. How what I thought was a gift was only another demand.
By Jackson D. Moorman
Biography:
Jackson D. Moorman (he/him) is a queer and trans poet, organizer, and nurse who lives in Oakland with his wife and their two tiny rescue mutts. He is co-editor-in-chief of the poetry journal Frozen Sea and co-organizer of a poetry series for Palestine entitled In Water & Light. You can find him on Instagram and Twitter @jacksondmoorman.
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