LPiA-24 Nov. 22

[RiverNotch]

and in her pink ivory car
lined with gold, studded with sandalwood,
and dusted with ground-up lapis,
needing no engine but a flock of sparrows,
no wheels but scallop shells,
no road but light,

what you should have asked of her
is what she asked of you in turn:
what you should have wanted most of all
is that your crazy heart
become more sane, is that you call out more
and suffer more

and the daughter of Ouranos, she will come
with her breasts barely veiled