raucous freshness

and too, hands, eyes, words and names of things from out the concrete heart, each like lace, with holes in a pattern

(i stood on your porch and i smoked a cigarette.  the sky was night.  and it smelled like the lawn.  a man in a jacket.  there you were.  and you remarked on a choice.  above night circled.  the eyes of my face circled in, falconlike.  you you you

later a woman gave me a deck of tarot cards.

i was dizzy with you.  and it was cigarettes near the lawn.  a choice you made.  later my heart beat with it.  you you you you you)

my veronica, you stood apart, hanged in constellation like the lover of a god.