Letter Fourteen – Windows Close Fast
Watch Mars follow the ripe plum full moon or
out beyond Queen Anne Hill or
the Aurora Bridge
for a moment sunset clouds inherit
the hues of a burning star the daily mystery of
fire before our eyes
smoldering a few million miles from
here & falling
beneath
the bridge in a
prayer answered summer not wasted day
of kayak on Lake Union the
fine
weather the smiling daughter
and the skyline beyond her
outline.
Its August & these
windows close fast as an orange
star drops
looked @ over Lake Union
out beyond Queen Anne Hill or Aurora Bridge
on a typical August Wednesday
the setting sun ticks away her
childhood & later the
Milky Way is backdrop for Mars chasing the near full
ripe plum moon.
6:27AM - 8.14.03
(Phrases
taken from Andre Breton –
Angle
of Sight and Sunflower)