The Flower

##### The FlowerRobert Creeley

I think I grow tensions

like flowers

in a wood where

nobody goes.

Each wound is perfect,

encloses itself in a tiny

imperceptible blossom,

making pain.

Pain is a flower like that one,

like this one,

like that one,

like this one.

###### MARGINALIA

Fools rush in, says Sinatra in a song, and here I am, more than glad to be unhappy, he sings. Look at yourself, he croons, do you still believe the rumor that romance is simply grand?

Here, a poem for our wounds.

###### ABOUT ROBERT CREELEY

Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended Harvard University from 1943 to 1946. In 1946, he published his first poem, in the Harvard magazine *Wake*. Creeley published more than sixty books of poetry including *If I Were Writing This* (2003); *Just in Time: Poems* *1984–1994* (2001); *Life & Death* (1998); *Echoes* (1994); *Selected Poems 1945–1990* (1991); *Memory Gardens* (1986); *Mirrors* (1983); *The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975* (1982);… [(more)](#)

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