Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Juno.

She is the sort of person that makes you believe
in war bulletins and those sorts of things
in the divine right of kings
and the absolute necessity of never
ever cutting the tags from your new bought
king size mattress no matter how they scratch
beneath the cotton sheets
suffice it to say that whatever she says
we all agree and that it was, that it is
exactly what we meant , what we mean
in every circle the center
is hers by unquestioned right
at every line she is the head
and we think of her we dream
in our cotton sheets on our king size beds
but she does not think of us
she is the sort of person to make you dare
impossible improbable things
but is herself as implacable as gravity
and so we fall over and over again
in desperate love only to land
lonely on the cotton sheets
She bears the name of Greece's bane
and with it bears its weight
She is the sort of person to set the seas aflame
and we all we all whisper her name
leaving the homely shores with the lonely beds
to sail the stormy sea and land at last
at Normandy.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You were right about me liking this one especially. I love the way you wove myth with superstition to characterise both her and her family. King size beds, seas aflame and Normandy...very subtle and brilliant