Saturday, April 5, 2008

Before Marriage

A Bluebird at the Window

I love a bluebird sure, they walk with feathers all akimbo backward dawdling

of course I love a bird

the way they turn toward the night, a tiptoe maneuver

If Only all the bluebirds sang at once

in the dawn gown dowry of a lady's wait for the sunrise to shape

in a cathedral filled of all glass and light and mostly Air

these ladies of the dawn

hear the birdsong hear the heart swell with ocean and delight

hear it whittle hear it bore new holes within the heart

Let it drip beneath your clothes

your nudity in all its caramel delight

tear your breast and beat your heart the birdsong is for time

To tick away the hours till you burst yourself apart

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