Monday, April 26, 2021

today's poem - "Edna"

Edna

 

Enamored with her otherworldly

eloquence in pursuit forever

of Edna

his love around they went

through time

and expression and Edna

for her part had a wandering heart

and still he worshipped

the Earth upon which she sat

 

when first they met feeling was paramount

he felt exalted

as a constant cross years

she was a Delphic oracle of pleasure

when first they met he remembered as if now

words like jewels like senses

 

mountains of the Earth stand distant

and every day shells itself to consume

till once at coffee

years like crags

she said you only love my array of pleasure

not me

as she presented papers of dissolution before him

mountains of the Earth stand near

 

away swirled every possibility

he said I will contest

this forever, even to the high courts

so strong is his lack of grasp

of Edna

Edna in days strung like ghosts

disappearing away into the mist

 

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