I fear
To look behind over my shoulder, To see the temporary in the pictures, The flowers and the breakdowns, Forgetting how beautiful, how bad, Too far in the past, The sight is losing ground, The heart so sensitive and weary; Love, the child on his way, No seed the sower spills, The breath hard and sultry, The mouth embraces the lips And scrutinizes and tastes, Eating lips with a strawberry round. How close the ground has come, Days, nights too short, All the roads and dreaming fields, To reflect on, to muse And missing things; To bed down in an arch and curvature, To blow on the little hairs around the bellybutton And the small fluff within Planted, a plan more or less And never evermore so tender. The regret about the impermanence of everything Softly tucked in at night with an eiderdown Of sleep and oblivion Coming out of a little box of the pharmacist Around the corner; Without words and s...