Constants
It’s pleasing to fill crystal with callas again,
to recall how little they ask to grace ditches,
forgotten plots, a mother’s grave twice a year.
Some pay money for what locals call weeds.
Me, I see women so simply exposed
they can be drawn with one perfect line.
by Patricia Wallace Jones
Editor’s Note: The last two lines of this delicate poem carry the entire thing. That is all.
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