Monday, October 08, 2012

After the rain a little pergola


At first she didn’t see me
sitting there, the corner dark
and edged by shadow rays

as if it were a mission station
for the night. They reached out
beyond my waist

to her, all neck
as she peered into the obscurer
specimens, lifting leaves

and looking down
into their dark hearts of green.

I looked up at glowing
canopies, speckled chandeliers
of trees, until her orbit

brought her close to me and she
said “God,
you must be soaked”.

“I was”, I said, as one last drop
ran down and past my knee.

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