Lesson

Sweet air of night
Who comes remote
Horizon, bled
In yellow drops
As sunset
Stripped
Until the naked
Eve revealed
Your shrill uncouth
Forgotten smells
God love me how
Romance has fled
Though in her wake
Is this instead-
The lilac grinning
Peeled of purple
Stark as bone
Untouched and steady
Rose as shadow, underbelly
Wind of lover sleeping
Puerile legs in curl
Night comes in dregs
Like coffee slosh
Through windows
Agitating dreams
To dervish, so-
Approach!
Teach tired hearts to seem
And seem again
And seeming steady hold their pens
Make threads of meaning meet with threads.