Yesterdays Wishes

Back when girlish daydreams rode the ether like coal-glowy-clouds featly feet kept a beat in spring grass as I flounced with Romany wind breezy-gypsy-lips brushed my cheek as I whirled in his arms ‘til I fell over on pillows of clover… white fields did pillow my dreams as slow-motion-cumulus shape-shifted to what I wanted to see I found you where you stood a wizard-well made of stone there you sang your mouth O-pen like the eye-of-the-storm and oh— with fluent depth your slippery rime beguiled my mind June wind a flowy fifer blew across your rounded rim folksy-fife twisted petticoat heartstrings… wishes stitched seams bewitched — hopes bloomed like soft-stemmed peonies twined in choke-hold-vines in season before my summer solstice when skirt-pleats hid shy knees how was I to know wishing for lambs from edelweiss was as fictive as a sugar-unicorn parade — so I dared not damage the magic with doubt’s dent as I cast blindfolded coins weighed down with cinder-block-hope with fealty to a deity who made ethereal echoes of my name yet callous your schemes pitching dreams empty as a fool but for her shame back then life was unmapped until clover fields became sneak-away-streets your name paved where remains of wishes lay like burned-out cars at curbs