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You, coming back up through grass
And green undergrowth, is it you?
The way you saw yourself later, standing
So long on the porch drinking coffee,
Trying to begin a new way of thinking.
I kept thinking I saw you. Leaning
Against the wall in your blue t-shirt,
The sky like a tide.
It
was May,
And every day, it seemed, was like
Starting all over. The idea you grew
Up with, it was that, the vanishing
Point of all meaning, and you,
The center of a proof being revealed.
CHERI FEIN
LULLABY
Night time. So then. Eyes close tight become the sleeping plant
the leaf curled in and moist
the rest time
to think of you
as north and star and peeking light as clouds move south or west
away
your bed and I rock back and forth with calm and blue
like glaze for you this song for you like glass or leaf
no light
right now no need I rock and think of you inside shining
in my throat like song and slow curled in
and in my heart a
heart-shaped leaf asleep and dreaming clear as cloud moves off
the star
so shining
