for Sally Seton

exhalation, _velvet boisture
about temporary coverings / incident expansive
increments upon borrowed stature.
fresh-blooded summers wrapt to brown paper
pressed w/ dahlias & hollyhocks
reprise affections _ echoed ecstasy, descent
frocked white for sprung protection
twilit relics _ ruby _ drawn of dark French abandon
the only name I’d take to the top of the house.
tint _ bravado
Othello catching lock
& casting aside stone urn

your gasps like cotton animals
fingers as inevitable feathers