Voices II
Carol V. Davis
Originally published in the December 2012 issue of Empirical
It didn’t matter
whether we believed her or not
the dead kept on speaking:
whom to trust
who would betray her
After the voices stopped whispering
they took to the airwaves but only she could decipher
the code
the way a scientist sequences
genes while the rest of us only see floating quotation marks
I never knew why I landed in her column of dependables
was slightly offended as if I were not as
dangerous as I like to think
the last time I saw her she was
digging up her garden
all that beautiful dying
black tulips tossed on a pile
two-toned narcissus yanked by the stems
purity she wanted a native garden
spiked succulents to shield her
salvia to keep the fires at bay
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