The Night Winds

      The night winds, so big, grow small when you sigh, 
      So full is your breath of their sowing, 
      Even the sea's necklace of rocks cannot measure you 
      In your camisole, although they measure the sea. 
5     A vastness resides in your glances 
      As if all the earth swung in one dew-bead. 
      Your body has the lustrous strength of a horse 
      Thundering on the midnight headlands. 
      I look near you, around you, searching for edges, 
10    Sides, spaces, but you are edgeless and endless, 
      The sweet air that lets me hymn praises within her. 
      Your foundations are final beneath and above me. 
      I am flung into you like a golden rope 
      And never feel myself falling. You are the mast 
15    Oceans dissolve to arrive at. My island, female 
      As the deep scents of the jacaranda 
      Each night holds open to kiss you.

 

From the collection "The Rose Lasso"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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