invitation (2010)

From Love Songs for Dennis 

 
INVITATION

This is love: to wait inside

my own four walls, to grow

my garden, its pomegranates,

ripe apples, fragrant cinnamon—

and, too, its patches of hackberry,

poison oak,

its unweeded abundance of

illchosen words—

To offer these my fruits,

bruised or halfripe, into your hand:

To say “come in,”

unbeautiful, but sure