The night sulks, trespassed
by halogen dazzle
by halogen dazzle
racing through red railing.
An edgy glare to curtain the stars.
An edgy glare to curtain the stars.
The night glowers, and lucky us,
witness to a magical thinking,
witness to a magical thinking,
empathic and shining,
wordless like resting breath,
the morning grass, moonlight on water,
coyote’s patient hunger.
The day hung mired in dogwood winter,
a cool flood of yellow pollen:
a cool flood of yellow pollen:
Bradford Pear, everywhere.
Each surface, a granular umbrage.
The day, abuzz in bees knees,
felt genuflection to forsythia
and honeysuckle, long limbs,
maple and sweet. We come pink
with desire to a night,
snake-skin fragile, glacial and deep.
The wolf hours grow wrinkled,
long in the tooth, flabby with
nettles and bothered stars.
The love songs of toads hide here.
In a moment, harpooned with sirens,
the wind is flimsy and flat,
no song in its piney tresses.
We squat sepia-speckled, chagrin,
you turn off the light. The night is reconciled,
the dazzle undone, shadows lean in.
the dazzle undone, shadows lean in.
An old man listens,
a wife dozes on joints arthritic.
Night rides her like a Mississippi
barge, low in dark water.
barge, low in dark water.
Their years, carnelian, have made burrows
in the bed linens, ivory line-dried.
To the old man, rain on tin was
the perfect sound, but tonight
he changed his mind as she rolled over,
her moans a trellis of doves,
miracle of bodies so small for timbre so deep.
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