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Found Poem by Ed Taylor

the language of seeds is a letter
to everyone

you open it
it says I would love to kiss you
the price is your life

you with your hair of forgetting
& clarity decorated with mistakes
in your lava city

run toward your life
saying what a bargain
let’s buy it

About the Poet

Ed Taylor

Ed Taylor is the Buffalo-based author of the novel Theo, the poetry collection Idiogest, a Ravenna Press Triple Series, and 4 chapbooks. His prose and poetry have appeared in a variety of U.S., U.K., Australian, and Canadian periodicals, and his occasional other work includes the 2021 one-act play Black Nikes produced by Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo. This poem appears in his new chapbook Poor You, published in December by Los Angeles-based Bottlecap Press.

The Poem of the Week feature is curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.