06 November 2005
woman longtemps
fell in love w/ a working woman,
she made me faces
and furnish’d my freedom; she
spoke of my beauty as if it belong'd to
me, finally. and she was there
in th canals. we lost our time,
and chas'd th safaris off our skin.
an aggressive moth came to light
one night (for there will be many hands
she only silently shut
th screen door, and return'd to me
by fire, said no lover came to quiet