Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Golden neck geese April 21, 2012


Golden brass-necked geese-looking spouts

 fill the mugs of beer at the bar

near where we sit, like some image

from a fairy tale or a dream we do not

 wish to wake from yet, even though

 I tell her as I sip this won't work,

 this mirage we see or maybe only I see,

 and yet, I need to feel it for as long as possible,

seeing her face across from me,

 angelic, yet with a touch of demon, too,

 and I can't tell to which I am attracted most,

 inebriated on something that has

nothing to do with the alcohol I consume.

And she?

I can't read anything in her wide open eyes,

 only my reflection. She is a mirror, showing me

 what I want to see, not what is,

not what will be, and I sip that drink more deeply

 the drink the golden-necked geese feed me

and get much more deeply drunk on her.

 

 


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