There you are
this cold day
boiling the water on the stove
pouring the herbs into the pot
hawthorn, rose;
buying the tulips
& looking at them, holding
your heart in your hands at the table
saying please, please to nobody else
here in the kitchen with you.
How hard, how heavy this all is.
How beautiful, these things you do,
in case they help, these things you do
which, although you haven’t said it yet,
say that you want to live.
2022
Shorty
Contemporary
2025
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Anadiplosis
A device in which the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next.
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Pleonasm
the use of more words than necessary to express meaning, redundancy