O WIFE UNMASKED

O wife unmasked

O body of my plunder

foundation of my waiting

unforgivable

and continually alluring

Some witness loves you

as you blunder through

the webs of my sleeping spirit

Some witness points at our bed

like a monument to romance and song

and gets another crowd to wonder

O juices and fragrance

and inhospitable warmth

O last remains of dignity

O shadow brood of hatred love remorse

O ribbons and trajectories

annulling distances

O wires rays and chains

What channels of intense air

trembling to a signal

What alloys of eyesore and starlight

What sad bureaucracy of luck

to be with you and you alone

muddling through the Day of Judgement