In a sesone of somere þat souerayne ys of alle,
Þat was þe myry monþ of May when many myrthys spryng,
Þe sonne ys somnore and syre and sendyth tyl vs doun,
And byddyth vs bisy for to be oure bodys for to glade;
Man for to myrth hym in al maner wys,
Bestys for to buske ham on bentys tyl abyde,
Days of rain. The drey outside my window would keel and the wind would plunder. My heart was valent with possibility: I could be anyone now, half woman, half asterism. Fragmental as a new year. Patron saint of the rutilant and cindering. I could...
it skins clean air to show earth's mantle: no place where purity lies without danger, cleaving, a mouthful of alarm, feet gone to thunderous precipitate in one dead blink,
at the drop of a minor squall.
breasts on a statue by the herb garden dampen as its face grits harder stone fangs for protection.
He is wearing a fisherman’s raincoat a floppy rainhat with a long back brim or he is not he is the boy standing under the drainpipe in the full gushing waterfall his eyes are closed his head lifted into the full flow or they are...