I have been fumbling around for a golden ring
polishing a golden ring
*WH*ispers : there will be a murder in the library
but
*there is something*, maybe a silk scarf
maybe a red-gel'd footlight
maybe a golden house
Its thatch golden
Its wings nesting
Its breath baby and gentlefolk
Its inhabitant skeletal
but there is something I don't know
light is wild and cellular
life is spiral and godlike
I never had a sister
* What is it? *
not the murder everyone is
not the way my toes sink into the earth like they were rehearsing
for something that there is something
* have you made me a nameday card? *
Am I breathing lace? ice?
Porcelain image of a dear old bear
but there is something / but there is something
maybe just *gone *
*and a little slant *
porcelain sister
make a terrible breathing through your scarf
it is to make a golden ring bright again
someday I will wander up and down the bare hill wailing
someday the difference in our borrows will revolt
cold clouds that sweep through here
don't know how much we want to make our lives right
