Come to rest my darling,
the trees are autumn-twinged,
the ocelot of my mind is out,
would rest in the long grass.
Comes to rest the bus in hydraulic
exhalation, a puppy-scamper wind
finds itself over water and rests,
rest the future fires rushing,
rest the past ash.
The heart’s
adumbrations of bees may never
cease, not the hopeful hum
or peevish sting but rest I would
my hand upon your breast, sleep I would
above the troposphere. No accounting
for your beauty moving through me
like a branch, a sigh coming from under
the squeaky remnants of the old barn.
Whatever’s buried there that once caused
such alarm has come back to forgive,
to apologize for how it all went wrong.
So rest my darling, my daring, the journey’s
almost over though I’ve gone nowhere
and never meant to stay there.