Citysong
angel dark angel constant as seasons infrequent as words old rainbow midnight remembered at dawn breath of wings on the morning pillow waking with dreams in your eyes fragments of lost conversations on your lips
Red Queen of my heart locked in the Tower your willing victim rivers of faces not hearing my cries
barges tug at the tides helpless I drown warehouse and Ionic column down before my eyes
fireweed on demolition sites butterfly beneath the breaker’s hammer sing for me
Red Queen of my heart mistress of my city lady of the river
you give me
rainbows riversides mountains
I give you
fragments of broken dreams bustickets torn snapshots
You send me anthems psalms symphonies
I send you stammered words shared bedtime-stories failed songs trailing away night into day …
waking with the key to the woods black cat lost in pink-and-white flowers
night into day Sunday churches penetrate the sky July fifes and drums in the William-and-Mary streets
night into day meeting at morning leaving at evening
night into day soft weeds sway in the river’s fastness
night into day down into darkness drowning in sunlight
lady O lady day into midnight
last breath on the morning pillow
silent words
forgotten seasons
angel
dark angel
sudden wings as the clouds close about us.
