LOVE SONG FOR EMILY
(for Emily Dickinson)


You handed me
your eyes
so that I could see


as you saw
I looking
in wonder


seeing you sew
the world together
in quick little stitches


a perfect embroidery
of knowing
drawing the thread through


& through
until nimble as a needle
I knew as you knew

Oh Emily
I was always
in love


with the beauty of
your eyes & how they saw
& said the world


the quick dashes
of your mind
like Braille


to my blindness
the Morse Code
of your thought


leading me
through
the labyrinth of you


bound
in a nut
shell


until I arrived
at the beauty
of your eyes


and you handed me
your seeing
and...I saw