Likenesses, as Time Stays
As on a draft horse calendar,
blue roan and blondie
haul cords of walnut,
inhibition dripping from the skids.
We stuff chintz cushions
with horse hair,
sway on hard maple torqued to porch swing.
As if Singhalese letters
stenciled frame and lintel
in our last room,
amaryllis bulbs force their coral totems.
We stare with the eye
of memory
to a retina’s permanent burn.
We eat persimmons, now alum is honey,
hearing water
wash reason from leaves,
hollyhocks bow their heads,
and nightshade give up its poison.
(ringed symmetries of chlorophyll
and haemoglobin join –
magnesium and iron at the molecular heart)
We walk,
hold in hands
the swing’s declining rhythm.
We speak through cold rain, breath inflecting
our marriage of passions sound.
We wait, into the first season.
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