Summoning the Body That Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes

Come second heartbeat sounding in the breast

Come prismatic light dissembling

Come familiar spirit  Come bare-chested in the weeds

Come private imposter  Come hidden ballast

Come sudden departures  Come stress without shape

Because belief is odd  Come swaggering answer

Come invisible ink  Come beatific scrawl

Come as squirrels are climbing backwards

Come as dogwood blossoms come apart

Come strumming an unspeakable power ballad

Through a torrent of rain with cheeks flushed scarlet

Come down the rusty metal slide

Come belted kingfisher flapping

Come lavender asters wheeling

Come loose, a sapling lengthening

Come honeysuckle  Come glistening