“ONE DAY ONE FLOWER” by Patrick Donnelly (poetry, ’13)

An excerpt from “ONE DAY ONE FLOWER” by Patrick Donnelly (poetry, ’13), published at Guesthouse:

ONE DAY ONE FLOWER

Glimpsed through an open door,
a simple summon,

hard to describe what was seen.
Then we lost the bar for a week, searched

many nights on the block where
it ought to have been. Kyoto, years ago.

When it appeared again, we said this is it.
Is it? Yes,

here
we are.

Chalkboard drawing of a goblet saying,
“Why not have some wine?”

Like Brigadoon turning up
only when it wishes to, or Frost’s Grail,

“Under a spell so the wrong ones can’t find it.”
The master nodding as we entered.

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