Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems 2004-2019
By Carmen Bugan
(Shearsman Books, 115 pp., $18)
Aunt Saftica, who lived in Romania, has died, and thanks to her niece in America, who places an order there for white lilies, like those grown by the aunt, a devoted gardener,
Over three nights of wake,
On your final walk through the village,
And at the last church service,
When you will leave your place
In the choir, and your living candle
Will be blown out, moved to the candelabra