PROCESSION IN THE FOG
pray me a boat a sleek- wooded vessel to cut the mirror at dawn.
the matrons of mourning call out of roses, for lilies for gardenias, for wisteria
crown this corpse with more than it has earned
weigh me down with woven wreaths.
let them all see, i was the stone he could not sink
i lay in cloying bed : a hand - plucked scalp of hillside.
i drown a garden
whimsical fruit of earth and sun.
flora for the sea : retribution for the tide

