VII.
…
can I ask you
it is raining
a kind of
weeping
from the sky
can I ask you
first a prayer
I start at Wednesday
do you sigh
do you say
or
are you silent
silent as each of my days’ poetry
as the prayer of the poem of each day
wind in wires
a bus that comes
the girls the bus girls speak about truth
about truth and beauty about truth and beauty
and innocence
can I ask you who is true to type
who is who who is not
truly
and how high their skirts were at the ball
Saturday unclear to me now
now a shadow deforms in the heat
what awareness does it take to form
long shadow of meaning
what else will you take
creeps over horizon
truly the 6th of December
dressed for all weather
packed front and back
a witch boarded a bus witch
hat green rib sweater
backpacked and fanny pack
with four blond daughters
her golden ones princesses
numbered four
white ducks
a black bordered photograph of Blanca
someone doctored for instagram the lost goose
her white flock left behind
to shed tears at farewells
and return
home
amply in the wires
Eliot the wind said
Christmas came
a song at least one said
are they not innocent and beautiful
and untrue
VIII.
scream and climb the ribbon
light onto horizon
…
and climb down
pointed legs
a spider dances
with white legs
darkness complete
as moon whiteness total
and toxic trees
small furred and feathered bodies
a lunatic enters the field
it is the new year
IX.
how have you chosen me before you have chosen
how
out of a fist tight cocoon a shadow deforms
a prayer first
and a saying opens
creeps
before you there was then the dead hour
Eliot Tiresias life
a feather on the back of my hand
wind the wind the wind
the wind that knows all has been foresuffered
foresuffering all
the wind knows amply knows the wires
and if he did not believe
then she spoke I have not
not the numbers not with me I have not google
not with me not
I have no cell
I have not
not I
a halo flew from the sun
to her head
from saying not I
ecstasy of saints
children
I saw this on the 7th of January
the day after my son’s birthday
Saturday
