dis-spelt

Away, away

Now that I have told the man I love

I do not love him, I will need a new, a way.

Now that I have admitted to my dis-

Passion, my dis-possession, my dis-ease.

I will need new ways, new stars, new bones,

New trees. I leave

With me I bring my blue-veined feet,

My jeweled face, my dis-pleasure, my dis-ease.

I pack, unpack my orange streaked,

My freaked heart. With me I bring

My prosthetic soul. Under the newly dis-astering

Stars I dis-limn, dis-orb, dis-robe. O new dis-aster!

I will need new breasts, new legs, electric shock.

A clock, a clock. I will need to dis-pose of my

dis-pose. My sorry starry pose. Now

dis-arranged, now dis-natured, now dis-

Owned. My dis-comfiture, my dis-comfort,

My dis-content: none dis-edged, none dis-closed.

All tree and bones! Dis-furnished

Among the turning leaves and the burning faces, do hang.

My dis-candied dis-course burnished, banished

Dis-patched abroad. Dis-lodged, dis-mayed, dis-

Played like this, like these,

Like Sylvia's leaves, Uke dead letters sent

To dear(est) him that lives alas! away

Now that I have, now that I have

Alway, alway.