Certain Ways to Take Flight

The bird I make my nest with

is a painter and a queen.

So subtle in her artful voice

… like the palette

and mark

of her pensive art!

I am a dog

… my howl of choice,

the moonlit words

I scribble here!

… in gazing on the things she paints

… the things she paints, as if a dream

… with all the longing of my heart

or listening to her wisdom's breath

… oh day and night of mine!

… oh choir of angels … choir of saints

to give me peace

more powerful

than death …

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