You Have Harnessed Yourself Ridiculously to This World

Tell the truth I told me When I couldn’t speak.

Sorrow’s a barbaric art, crude as a Viking ship Or a child

Who rode a spotted pony to the lake away from summer

In the 1930s Toward the iron lung of polio.

According to the census I am unmarried And unchurched.

The woman in the field dressed only in the sun.

Too far gone to halt the Arctic Cap’s catastrophe, big beautiful

Blubbery white bears each clinging to his one last hunk of ice.

I am obliged, now, to refrain from dying, for as long as it is possible.

For whom left am I first?

We have come to terms with our Self

Like a marmoset getting out of her Great Ape suit.

I had the immense pleasure of studying with Lucie. She has this amazing collection of porcelain figures of horses hatching out of eggs.

She introduced me to Thomas James.

She is lovely.