Elegy

The Queen of Clubs
&
The Queen of Hearts
From the same set
A different fiction
The story begins…


Sister Celandine
What language
Is your song?
From your dark
Will you sing
My name?
Beautiful stranger
Your name
Is not in my song
From my heart
I sing the language of love
And my name is Valentine
The story begins
Unsuredly from behind
A mosaic veil

First to arrive
In purple and green
The Murex Queen

With a very much alive
Red headed water djinn

Paper semaphore
Saying please do not trip on
My blue parasol

The butterfly paint
Requires a
Dedication for life

A prairie wraith sings
A cold white hymn
That brings

Utter destruction
Beautiful chaos

Ribbon See
Noble natural light
Through a hall of glass

This light
This Helsinki light
Is painful to my eyes
Shield me or go away

On the Sea Wall
Beyond the pier
It is beautiful here
Join me, don’t fall

White bleeds blue
Gold elements fall
Shallow sea blue
Cold concrete wall

Jaya Jagadambe
She who tears apart thought

Reconstructed, barely
In a Mesopotamian mirror

On a covered bridge
An angel opens her wings
Purple winter night

Black wings
Black wings
And the bay light

Dull diamond hole
Broken and wrapped
Come to me
I will protect you

My heart speaks
Golden rays of love
Only for you
I love you
I love you
I love you
She loves you

I remember
You walked away
When I threw my bouquet
And there was
No program to save for yourself

I remember
Cedar wind and bird song
Ssshhh
She’s about to speak

From the black car
She says “Welcome”
33 times

Wait Soleil
Don’t pay
For that Batik

What is he doing there?
My friend
This Spanish man
Nightwatcher, professor

The architect
Asks you to turn around

Hitomi, Hitomi, Hitomi
Your travertine fire
Is too bright

It all hurts
To be happy to
Remain in light

So green
Is your shawl
made of soy?

Separate walk
Outside the sand wall

The spark shower
Is it on the left
Agitates my mind

Gossamer alar
To hide behind

Faint gold hope
I promise

Gold, glass, girls
687 point lights
On the horizon

A fountain of mirrors
Reflection site
This aeon
Our image forever bright

One demonstration
This aeon
Our mind
Such frustration

Falling cloak
On the way home
Ends the day

A new reign appears
Who is that?

Silver tight in the corner
Red wine in a glass
She sings my name
New Year’s day
She passed away
Owl hides my name
Raven punishes my name
Panther prowls my name
And then is gone
Out of sight
Falling chains
Dim the light
My name

What speaks to you
Of me
Of these others
We are not one
Nor thirty three
We are inevitable
Our chaos
Our story
Disappear in light
Appear in dark
1
Our reign
Our song
Our name
Our fiction
Our future
Is new