4.27.2004

MADELEINE IN APRIL




The white-flowering pear tree
against a backdrop of gray
clouds, lead-silver rain:
tiny Milky Way


or early Pentecost, turning
slowly in the melancholy
mirror (over the small
seed-spirals, buried


in puddles, soil). Then you
turn toward the water too:
toward the cloudy glass
framing the blossoms;


toward your Jerusalem
(model or chamber,
ointment jar:
invisible).

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