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).
4.27.2004
Labels:
Dove Street,
Magdalen
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