Saint Paul, 11 April 2014
for Cindy Gipple
Paused on the steps of a darkened house
We divine nothing except the urgency of affairs
Snow crystals sparkle like starlight above the Arctic Circle
Resplendence settles on the spines of wrought iron handrails
Your eyes draw me to you like the mass of an unnamed planet
It's a body set in motion sometime following the Big Bang
Ice and rocks coalesce to moons orbiting your Jupiter