MOSAIC SEA
Calm bronze serpent zigzags through
November Indian summer.
The northern light is clear
in smoky autumn – mirrors you.
What you cherish will remain
in sleights of memory.
A wheeled mosaic sea
en masque – galactic Halloween
as out of Egypt swam the sun
of Man (Apollinaire
with calumet, plein air)
& left his tempered wrath, his sunken
jealousy behind (dark backward
bones, full fathom five).
Ikhnaton’s beehive,
a honeyed hexagon – God
being pure agape (Manitou,
magnanimous & kind).
Sleepwalking blind
only the dream revives you –
only a breath of homely air
(smoke lifting gracefully,
light’s equanimity).
Chaste akme of the meteor –
a Lincoln logos, omnipresent;
curving profile of a brow
figuring Noah’s prow –
tender basilica to dancing bent.
11.2.16
