CIRCLET COMB
to Flavia Saraiva
So light she could dance in the palm of your hand
diminutive Flavinha
16 yrs old (4’4”)
spins round a square in Rio-land
revolving figure out of Faery circling
like Geraldine Fitzgerald
with redhead emerald
circlet comb encompassing
a globe within her seashell shallop
green mandala made
of hands rosy mermaid
(see Phoebe’s sapient dewdrop
on linen frame for navigation)
one palm in the hurricane
eye Persephone
shows leaf again becomes whole nation
wheeling in the Great Bear dance
around an oak tree acorns
reigning like Golgotha crowns
skullcaps & elf beanies the romance
of Mnemosyne again, again
the early history
of Buffalo or Rimini
Ravenn or Petersburg Pipestone
or Voronezh or Minneapolis,
even along a spiral
fiddlehead springs tall
her heavy lightness like an Okie kiss
8.10.16
Palm print by Grace Tagliabue & Phoebe Gould
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