Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Or Take For Instance the Time I Found You


My ill-favored number laughing and laughing
Beside a windowpane where flowers burned
Quietly as a steadfast yellow flame one could
Believe God himself had gently lit breathing
Softly so as not to blow it out O what secret what
Obscure doubt made us smile while enormous
Words fluttered only a room away where things 
Remembered came to light cluttered thoughts 
On a bedside table I was thinking of you 
Always dry on a beach you and your wan 
Infidelities your legs gloved knee-high in fine 
Black stockings what gorgeous fortunes!
At once and forever we drew the blinds
All the words had busted wings and street sounds

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