Rebecca Lindenberg - Catalogue of Ephemera

You give me flowers resembling Chinese lanterns.

You give me hale, for yellow. You give me vex.

You give me lemons softened in brine and you give me cuttlefish ink.

You give me all 463 stairs of Brunelleschi’s dome.

You give me seduction and you let me give it back to you.

You give me you.

You give me an apartment full of morning smells—toasted bagel and black

coffee and the freckled lilies in the vase on the windowsill.

You give me 24-across.

You give me flowers resembling moths’ wings....