Watched carefully now

auburn slept to the dogs in the yard
comfort blistered her in,step
for every minute



dances she, on the stage,
haystack dusk of the auditorium lights
on trained her standing still

your feet Trailed, at the empty song,
for every day's reproach
beneath cursed the palms-


paned through the sky overhead,
frame the dusk on the window, fingers
to mine frame into

wool into pressed a pattern,
lied on her back, a
tempest fell to the cabinets.


clench her teeth sacred around hands
verses, her fell from the keyhole
sounded she the bell of twilight
and was harmony the strife


in silent, Assent
nor ever in passivity
light on all obscured