Scott Simpson · Poetry

A Purple Iris

Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 230

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A Purple Iris

is there in her hand

like a bruise

after the fight he knew a

tear would never do

the trick

as they fall

quiet near dusk their

daughter

searches the house

for an unbroken vase