Peony, Two Perennials.

A digital collage and a poem.

Peony (2022), David Donoghue, Digital Collage.

Two Perennials

Sitting across from her, she wants
To explode bulbous and ripe into the space
Between their fizzing tips. Cuticles 
Peached and glowing under her gaze.

    Buds pop; wet lip red.
    Heaving hearts and heavy hopes.
    All over come the fall.

Sitting across from him, the pennies drop
From his languid gaze and he gathers them 
Like petals fallen from a broken stem; 
They wither on the cloth beside the bill. 

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