Friday, December 27, 2013

Night Prayer

                                    Tactile sky, a child’s bedroom wall at night.
                                    A blue star like a gas fire pilot light.
                                    Wallpaper frieze, or drooping elm tree clusters?
                                    Night-lacquered saraband of interlaced leaf lusters.

                                    Presentiments of deluge, featured in
                                    The walled sky’s membranous translucent skin;
                                    A bleeding-through of humors, held the while
                                    By nothing but the muscles of a smile;

                                    Ready to burst, an eyeball fat with dew,
                                    The ocular tumescence of a view
                                    Galaxies-wide in compass, in whose girth
                                    And argent perlustrations drowns the earth.

                                    Night vault, in whose ideal rotundity
                                    Thunder awakens, cloud your eyes, as we
                                    Breath on a lens; your deafening vastness this
                                    Will sweeten with the moisture of a kiss.

                                     1/6/2012

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