From my slice of ample darkness and space,
I look at you from all the stirrings of things,
dancing though you cannot dance,
leaving planetesimals all over the terrain.
I can sense out a locutionary from the heated body
beside me. Surliness so sure of its dagger in hiding,
slowly creeping up like cocoon of morning.
That was you in your off-shoulders.
Collarbones, caryatids, tilted atmosphere
summered, simmered into the air
until it died in a hollow jar.
And from your foreground, rusting is the wind
and it falls down on the lawn, like garlands
spread all Autumn by a sprightly, darling child
in a lithesome gingham dress.
My hands, past vertical, destroying limits,
feeling the weight of mercurial form begin
shifting into a disturbance in lotus stature,
fraying out of phase in limited access,
this height where springs of undecipherable fogs
lift the face of clocks, unwatched,
whose departure is this but only distance knows?