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For A Woman I Have Never Met (Revision)
April 28, 2008, 05:05:27 PM by Oleksa
Time is not a stream; as in China, it is a waterfall in a weightless world, a constant cascade upwards that bears you aloft till lungs hold a last swell in the stratosphere & you arise new in that pure airlessness. It happens over again.
You may lay on your snoring stranger a wreath of heather, dear; & that will be all right. But, you may leave one mug too many
on the counter, as if the evening were a phrase in need of an ellipsis & the day after could only end with a period. Wild carrot leaf is
pressed between these pages, heirloom passed from self to self. Could it have been blue, then, with umbels resembling morning
climbing through open lattices & past hoary flora to drag its silk dress up the stairs, to go strew feathers over your kitchen table?
Perhaps. Neither of us can say whether this half-open door allows chicory to spring through it from the next house, nor whether that gust would falter at the strands fallen across your face so that I could write this poem for another.
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