Monday, December 18, 2023

Poetry—the Other Kind of Perception (That Comes Naturally to the Particles of Light)

 

Primed with a pristine balm

of sweet welcome

and with a plumped-up cloud

below the undone hairs’ lash,

 

in an open code, her arms extended

read: “What is bound to happen

will be, as it should, above your head

just as above mine—

 

With nothing else to comprehend

except that love is a magician

and each touch—a potent spell.”

 

Just as every photon knows it when

it’s seen, and so does every woman,

and even if the eyes are those of a poet.

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