I can only find words for.
And sometimes I can’t.
Here are these flowers that stand for.
I stand here on the sidewalk.
I can’t stand it, but yes of course I understand it.
Everything has to have meaning.
Things have to stand for something.
I can’t take the time. Even skin-deep is too deep.
I say to the flower stand man:
Beautiful flowers at your flower stand, man.
I’ll take a dozen of the lilies.
I’m standing as it were on my knees
Before a little man up on a raised
Runway altar where his flowers are arrayed
Along the outside of the shop.
I take my flames and pay inside.
I go off and have sexual intercourse.
The woman is the woman I love.
The room displays thirteen lilies.
I stand on the surface.
— Frederick Seidel
thank you for this poem. I read it. It makes the hair on my arms stand on end. Exactly
Could someone explain why it’s 13 lilies when he bought only 12? Thanks.
12 lilies represents the 12 months .his lover had a pureness in all 12 months as a 12 lily.
Hi AE , what i thought was that he is comparing the woman he loves to a lily – therefore thirteen lilies ? I may be way off of course !!