Lilacs

With the fragrance of broken lilacs

the lost girls of our youth

haunt us like dead apostrophes

O my vine my christmas tree my

blue chip rainbow trout

where are you shining now?

My sunday morning heartbanger my

laughter benedictine my panic-picnic

are you still ringing today?

We cry crowded by images in an empty room

my root and branch my lost lilac

where do you live with whom?