24 June 2008

Subfusc Gem

You are like a subfusc gem full
of internal facets and darkness

Refracting light at oblique angle
sidelong to the point of things

Whose
love projected on the ceilings

of any & of all the buildings


The golden rings—who, coiled
—fill the the joint's insides

The subtle difference of the wave when they collide


Summer, stifling forest and
the tempestuous glint of metal

in grass He will let all
pass above the grassy pitch

which is leavened, stretched

Looking toward the recent
past, to try and find it

The clearing out the fire
pits The oft-painted

sitting bench