Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight.


Rose: Poems (ed. 1986)


Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.