mercy

reading in Italian woods

Shelley sees

ghosts on warm lawns

 

a platinum perimeter

of shaved light

surrounds him

 

Mary's peroxide halo mothership descends

his laughter

foams

 

her spindling hair

stiffens

his breeze

 

the black of night

the fruit of day

by the end of the day

 

he's at sea

and every molecule

is a poem

 

each the cry of a poet

this sea

breaks

 

its infinite

molecules of poems

over him