the eye

(a poem for my wife)

Citizens disquieted and leaving exist 

Bled out into the parquet 

Evacuation order be damned – this is ours, they said 

For certain – solidity is worth this.



Serenely shine on, placid hearts shimmer

Ripple, silver fish kissing mosquitoes

From the mirrored surface, nimbus rose,

A prayerful fairy circle round us glimmers.



We watch whole houses 

Pixelate into the sky, threshed fine

Anointed with sun and silent dew 

Her arms cocooned in mine.

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