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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPIRAL IN VERMILLION; AFTER HUNDERTWASSER, by JANE MILLER Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes the fog submits to the lake, the lake
Last Line: You have arrived.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Loss Of; Women
First Line: Sometimes the fog submits to the lake, the lake
Last Line: You have arrived.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Loss Of; Women
after Hundertwasser
Sometimes the fog submits to the lake, the lake
to the sky. Naria, I loved your sister and I lived
like a yellow sailboat circling
that won't last. Astilbe, paper flower,
my foreign girl,
my rendezvous was not with you. Sometimes the innocent
get snagged while floating down a canal
in autumn, concentric, the thousand windows
in red and green, until the gold leaf
itself stops, realizing that hope
is something else. Veiled morning,
contemplative sky. Now, down,
why crouch
if not to leap to your wild horse -
auburn, rippling gratefully, relieved
you have arrived.
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