Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Attachment-Charlie Smith

Little prongs, hooks, eyelets
threaded through you,

some days almost invisible, love
a pertinence unapprehended,

magnolia spikes, swept up curlicues of scent,
bird feathers in the grass, a park

we crossed at dusk talking about liberation-
clasps, brackets, childhood mixed in,

the sacred memories-Baltic Sea, the South-
cathces, latches, holes in sound,

some of these, the words
more important than before,

a glimmerance, limerance,
the rain-softened lights among the monuments,

the way I hung back
to see you walking, a step ahead,

as if you were leaving me.

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