Here's to you

© Jean Arp



Here's to you : chestnuts
And red poppy petals for
Old needs need no

Fragments nor collapsing
Strategies but colors and
Shapes and fairy tales, slowly

Here's to you : snow
On cotonfields, spring
And beyond - I know

You will refuse -

And I wonder how long
You can shelter the shadow
Of mothers above fathers

Within your breast, how long
You can offer, without
Offering to long. Icons

Here's to you : what I
Can't avoid saying, for
Old needs need to be taken

Care of, without gridwood
Or primacy