Scrapbook

By Megan DeVries

Winner of The Makeshift Review's Fall Poetry Contest 2021

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Bindings crack and pages crackle,

Timeworn, breaking, as the sun

Bright and beaming burns the paper

In glass-fired amber vapor,

Faded flowers come undone.

Iris iridescent inkling

Stains the parchment purple-blue,

Drops of dew like nectar's echo

Dot the paper dark and speckled,

Indigo and amber hue.

Scrapbooked in the sunny setting,

Seedless petals gasp for rain,

Curling edges breathe intentions,

Rise from two to three dimensions,

Plucked and pressed they yet remain.

Amber dandelion weeded,

Wish now withered into blur,

Soft the summer seed-tops wisping,

Crumbled dust now gently lisping,

Lion's roar an exhale purr.