Sunday, March 02, 2014

Among the Birds and Moons that Haunt


It is exactly as it is here in this life a woman
Is there strumming a ukulele and singing a slight
Song with eyes closed beautiful features and
Profoundly ripe fruit bananas and avocados
Mostly but possibly three or four soft apples too
Pierced by arrows of smoke arrows of sidewise
Moments falling upward to branches where
Mute words not to be defined flutter meekly
Poor wing-clipped words what is it in you that so
Trembles and frets like a rope about to break?
It is exactly as it is here in this life a woman
Dances in a garden under the lights of new
Puzzling stars and it is said the cuckoos come
Often to sing in time with her slightest breath 

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