April
The shock of forsythia, quince...your thighs
when you lean in for the milk. Well, hello
hunger: what a sweet surprise.
now, I count on the trout lily's return, but
come March--the barren hills sleet-gray--that
your thighs are going to wake a warm beast
anywhere on my terrain isn't even on my list:
Be thankful:
four cords of wood left,
plus all that untethered range.
Then heat, thunder, spring-night air, and the hollow
just below your hip, surfaces. Here we are again:
you, washing your hands at the sink; me, peeling
potatoes. Each time you pass through my zone,
I want to rub my chest against you and purr.
But wouldn't you know it, we've been grumpy so
long, just when I'm watching your fingers peel
back the plastic on the Cheerios, you're soliloquizing
CD rollovers. You've refurbished an old hide-out and
it's going to take a lot of good dinners and going-alongs.
Only a few nights ago the peepers woke--a more
discordant opera of hankering you've never heard: such
a din of longing, each me, me, me tuning up. Imagine
the transcription. What librettist ever got Babel better:
the gospel of love?
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Author's Note
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"me, me, me tuning up."
Fantastic. Fav.
Once in a while I read a poem that makes me wish so hard to be a poet, to be able to create something so real that word, by word, gives such real pleasure. This, for example.
Imagine the transcription.