Gillian Osborne
Poem With Oratory and Roses
Unlike a catastrophe, a rose—
its ahistorical petals—
not an interruption in an office
where a woman is making notes
toward the smell of onions by an open window
where another woman is making
space apart from anguish or family
for anticipation, or humidity.
A rose grows.
1.
Between seer and seen
anthropologist and hunter
giver and the given
a blob of emollient color
5.
The petals of the family
are irregular in number
2.
A rose referring to other roses
More often than not
Feminized and prickling
As a lover references the hunt of bodies for a body
Giving in or changing
If a
Poem With Oratory and Roses
Unlike a catastrophe, a rose—
its ahistorical petals—
not an interruption in an office
where a woman is making notes
toward the smell of onions by an open window
where another woman is making
space apart from anguish or family
for anticipation, or humidity.
A rose grows.
1.
Between seer and seen
anthropologist and hunter
giver and the given
a blob of emollient color
5.
The petals of the family
are irregular in number
2.
A rose referring to other roses
More often than not
Feminized and prickling
As a lover references the hunt of bodies for a body
Giving in or changing
If a