Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Alone Again and Night at Last


Let’s be mythological figures with ill-fitting heads
Let’s take off our meaningful glances one foot
At a time like stockings labeled as artful hints and
Why don’t we dangle them out the window
And drape those mildly frowning socks over
The nearest branch—you know the one I mean
The oak where you said there are no impossibilities
The oak where I said how can anyone fail to be
The momentary smile of down-dappled sunlight
Remember how you named me Gerrymander
Happy-shins when I said that and I called you
Irrepressible Joy That Fits and then we looked
Up and saw the flying shutters of an enormous
Yellow city the air becoming air before our eyes

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