Sylvia,
My guess, your dress, of words
has been deflowered
As leonine, base,
As of a caul of death
That icy slick, your scald, has shed
and glitter split
a wax crystalis
Sylvia,
What is a boy to do,
to impress you
to vain a chalk scratch
in the hoofprint of your metre
Quirk a smile, from that
flatland greyscale snap of you
American, at twenty two
and possessed
Sylvia,
let us abide
in the bower of crafted elm
like wickedness
Crowd to the quick and conch
the tug of undertow
your terracotta emblem,
pity deep the mournful flow
trawling last words
Sylvia,
the ruddy microns of the air
are hefting Hugh and you
in this splendid friction of April
crackling diaphanous specters
rising ever to the heat
vague as notes
red as balloons
unbound Ariel’s