For Margaux
La Vita —
Here waiting for you, still by the door:
A hat, your pair of lavender shoes
— Nuova
The vase of marigolds
And its pitcher of water.
In Memorium: The life regained through poetry.
How your hair shone red,
as if coaled in the sun.
The pale afternoon in December
Their tender words on your behalf.
The silverware shined. The bowl of almonds.
Kristian Becker is a first year medical student at the Duke University School of Medicine. He has previously studied biochemistry and poetry at Boston University and Columbia University School of the Arts.
