An Appearance

 The smile of iceboxes annihilates me.

Such blue currents in the veins of my loved one!
I hear her great heart purr.


From her lips ampersands and percent signs
Exit like kisses.

It is Monday in her mind: morals

Launder and present themselves.

What am I to make of these contradictions?
I wear white cuffs, I bow.


Is this love then, this red material
Issuing from the steele needle that flies so blindingly?
It will make little dresses and coats,

It will cover a dynasty.

How her body opens and shuts --
A Swiss watch, jeweled in the hinges!

O heart, such disorganization!
The stars are flashing like terrible numerals.

ABC, her eyelids say.

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