Arpeggio in Fifths

- "and in my wild heart what did I most wish to happen to me." - Sappho

Swing you heavy door behind teeth and tongue

Slip into Habibe

You song of Veronica

Tupelo rose of mad

Ecstatic lyric in fifths

In lazy samba

Gather skirt 'tween fingers and thumb

Climb each rung

As slick in shadow

As in summer fog

Rise in adagio

II.

Shimmer you elegant orchid canopy

You sweet capitulation

Net this shy cosset

Like swallowtail and birdwing

Mercy give mercy

Quake calm

Under heaps of tight curls

Under heavy lids

I run for cover as

Your eyes find mine

Dive for andante

III.

Ring you tangerine canyon

You seismic syncopation

Rock my hips my shoulders

Tremble in Richter scale

A fluted pulse to slake thirst

Like apples and tea

And amethyst and filigree

And Saturday half past ten

Deep deeper

I delve a velvet interlude

Surge in allegro

IV.

Spin you endless of dance and stumble

You dark Rati Maa

Dispel dilemma like cats

Shake off calamity

Soaking sheets, salty lips

Temerity of cobalt

You complete me

With mirror perfection

Folded beneath jasmine

Behind myrrh

Ascend to presto

Echo you silhouette of blue heron

You rising moon

You Pegasus climbing

One two three

Simple evidence

Honeyed day
Life's palace delectu

I ripple in red tides and rain

Habibe is sundogs and

Fingers along backbone

Divinely legato

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