7 ways of looking at a woman

1.

the only air and 
through that air
the only voice

2.

the stone princess rolls
collecting trees
and birds
and evening

3.

what fear
I'll hold you

sit in some nook of me

4.

they left her for dead
she wasn't dead jesus
she was

5.

in the sunlight
sun is the brightest thing

moon is the same
but in the sun
forgotten

6.

tenderest sprout
under
the tenderest foot

7.

big
with small eyes


don zirilli
2/16/00