Vagaries of Love

All around you / announced in down falls the moon

hemmed by crews of thieves

and entropy.

In the white-washed vistas sleepers hold in the solution /

unfold from sheets of chlorine rending arm with arm leg with leg

until man assumes woman woman / man with unerring labor.

Every wrong act standing and placed in an imaginary circle a vessel or spine narrowing at the neck a green effacing stem forming a rosy spur.

Comic our tragic lips poison and sing

Scattered upon the night’s vagrant landscapes

A sickle of scorpions where the wheat falls

A span of moonlight upon the half-lit door.