"Rose buds"

 

"Rose buds"

By Alexandra Kanobel

2026

What happens to the words one starts to forget?

When looking at a star becomes vacuous

and you feel like a fresh lemon being squeezed

into the seemingly ever excisting juice?

When looking at a book for words

you don't possess anymore,

becomes interesting, again?

and you feel there is more in the realm of denomination like that?

I wish she would just forget to forget,

the way she forgets the once and again told stories,

the already added salt to the soup

or if taken the prescription medicine.

I thought a dog that barks at the stars

just doesn't stop its soundmaking,

because they are too far away for him to reach.

She barks, yes, but it has become of a different kind -

without teeth.

Drinking the bitter ending juice,

- being prepared by the one stranger -,

throughout the seasons

didn't just make her, our family a better being,

it just made us understand the neutral cruelty of sickness & time.