Saturday, April 7, 2018

Fay, please confirm

Fay, please confirm

             that it's just another spring
  memory, veiled
like the Crocus at the painter's
  feet-
  a clay bed
for seeds to green in lavender heat,
  heats of old;
              & things like that!

You, in yr leg-horned hat, will plant 'em
 scented in milkpod
(or gashed to let in dew), and
  keep in one drying eye

Dreamless, like petals in your hands,
  are ghosts of a milky
love! 

And shadowy, to be passed on
  in hectic heat;
at that zenithal, uppermost stalk
  of yr one dear eye, Fay!

For whose dear sake, (or since it's me!)
  a type of acid-
yellow flower or the stone of a
  southern star
will punch through Night's hollow bars
...

  Fay, please, it's
just a time zone long, up or down--
  acid Crocus of my love!
   

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