( for Francesca Filia Aestas )
I. toward francesca, . . . an appeal apollo's yearning, apples given in trees a queried garden, stories of netted sun a tilting of earth, gold shifted hives near
into airstream rails
into swept, . . . interleavers cloak docking nails, the door outside airstream, its trail hitch starshell, oil and gas, evanescence, ever clear :: bet clearing, clarifying, comical position
honey hollows, a mounting upfallen sky
outgassed sphere, rollicking, life rolling
:: rain dancing
rejoinder to road, to dust, to shot put descending the distance, the thunderhead
in remonstrance, sowings of stillmost
lightning:
starry sequins, begowning heart beats
red tongue in sickle
pulsar in thunder, shoulders of the god hoisting hips aloft, granting the beloved every ground.
MICHAEL D. MAIN ~
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