alfie lee writing

 

david hockney why
did you paint the shadows but not their leaves

these are the points
of departure

you ask if i can
offer you at least that

we cannot be my love
in the future

until we recall
the past as this

one day you'll view
a hollywood garden

under shady
leafless trees

one day you'll laugh and ask
another member cast

out on a limb
if you remember him

the time
when he seemed so distant

when he could not provide you
satisfactory answers to

a template tempered through
thought temporary

and after
image in your eyes

mind you were there
but barely

saw the light held
without substance

you wrote these words
you never showed

enough
i have to leave


~

*note to "david hockney why / did you paint the shadows but not their leaves"



                                                               

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