post-mortem flick of the lank equestrian eyelid that signals morning's first crepuscular move. ... a little salad consciousness about the tumescent room with the sentient purr of a cat; her musky oils a green verdure lapping primordial scent to engross a little readiness as the day progresses to its Oedipal stage and arrested development.  [33] 

 

THE ENCOUNTER

Today surprised me like a red fox blurting out of an October thicket - empty, dry, the burst of its energy camouflaged much as that fox, solemn and cold, biding his time till he thought I passed.  [34] 

 

MAGPIE TONGUES

Trillium breath, an ounce of feathered growth unravels in the cloves of the silent forest. The rain is heavy with the stamp of perfumed trees realizing slight restraint on bursting seed. Cloaked in fragrance, tufts of mossy step kiss the opening earth, a basement horizon presumes the darling test of flower across dale & rustling nook, then undresses moist greenery with sumptuous eye. The last is hardest - cat crimson, a fire weed sunset lotion, the rain erased away; nobody special harangues the leaves but birds steal in quietly with tenderness clothed of verdure to pinch a leafy oasis about their forest haunt.  [35] 

 

PLUMS & VINE

Plums and vine (as the Atlantic is green) intone the heavy church wall with errant sprigs, so Heaven sent they are big with earthly passion racing for the sky. Madonna Poverta in her midst with the pulpit clutching Light - so gnarled, like bush, that each crevice reeks with stone all stooped under such worldly avarice.  [36] 

 

PERHAPS

Perhaps the sky once was shadows, the moon lisped 'mongst April's song. Now, those warm lips ease departing sorrow like pressed flowers emptied from hallowed ground.  [37] 

 

APPROACHING THIRTY (Lauds and Matins)

Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus holding the years like tresses in a wistful pose. Tenebrous youth accosted by callow Time bleeds the heart with spring aloes. No comfortable shibboleths to restrain the wriggling polyps in the skin or nestling hair. Gerundive in movement, each 

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