Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Great Vanishing Act

if ever you've glanced sidelong
head bent
glint of beard catching
in those last ubiquitous
rays of a waning sun
(which I mourn for at
the witching hour between 7 and 8
on the tendrils of an abating spring)
then you've witnessed the papery veil
ever so fragrant in imagination
ever so dwindling in the afternoon-
of which I grieve it's dissipation.

That great evanescent tide-
a map of dew that plumes
across the hopeful iris
is sure
to blur

to envision its presence on the slick
underbelly of a thick rolling morning
is to prophesize splendor


to contemplate its arrest- remaining at the tip
of a lurking
violet night
would end in tragedy

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