Naomi Long Madgett Quote

This is not what I meant to keep
I thought of bitter-bright rememberings
pressed petals of forget—me—nots
or once-bold daffodils
not this hardness,
not
these bitter stalks of
weeds


Connected Islands (2004). Souvenir


This is not what I meant to keep I thought of bitter-bright rememberings pressed petals of forget—me—nots or once-bold daffodils not this...

This is not what I meant to keep I thought of bitter-bright rememberings pressed petals of forget—me—nots or once-bold daffodils not this...

This is not what I meant to keep I thought of bitter-bright rememberings pressed petals of forget—me—nots or once-bold daffodils not this...

This is not what I meant to keep I thought of bitter-bright rememberings pressed petals of forget—me—nots or once-bold daffodils not this...