Herveillance

These skies bind more than blind

From a Terrace (Aosta)

Sleek hair spills cursive on skin,
hue cinnabar scent hyacinth,
spells forms pliant.


                                     Bise kiss gusting
                                     as light tucks wing
                                     to brisk evening.

"...in this great convict-settlement"

     "Wealth and despotism easily know how to engage those laws as the coadjutors of their oppression, which were first intended for the safeguards of the poor."

                      --- Caleb Williams, William Godwin, Vol. 1, Ch. IX.

"...quick to capture the fleeting apparition of spirit?"

Je suis le saint, en prière sur la terrasse...

Miscarriage

Miscarry,
broken berth,
nothing's mooring.

Pregnant absence
lifelong for the
lifeless silence

That breaks earth in
the heart beating
solely for two.

First and Last Things

     Smiles faint
          as watermarks

     Tears coy
          as morning dew,

    Threshold leaves

 of tight lipped goodbyes
    and chaste lullabies
             shed

Regina coeli, laetare

Corpus Domini Jesu Christi proficiat tibi in vitam aeternam