Dear Sweden 1795,
Heart’s Ease grew over the rocks:
viola tricolor wild pansy heart’s delight
johnny-jump-up-and-kiss-me
The pansies grew solitary, lateral.
three faces in a hood love in idleness
The song they wouldn’t play
for dead Juliet was Heart’s Ease.
It was not the time to play
and I had a father who would relent—
or so I thought.… Read the rest