Sixteen Lines as Love Lingers
the world goes on as your tiny paw warms on my hoof
ink clutching a wing
as fear homes toward the clouds and the sentry on a hill
1. Let us linger over love
2. Let the light libble over the lake’s incontinence
3. Let light lift this adfled life
4. Let the labile lattice live
5. Let the blue dawn languor into the wood’s listening
6. Let death chime chitinous with creature horns until it leaps out the back door
tumbling down
Let madness alliterate L’s, bite down bite down the leather reigns, this illiterate loss
7. Let time, mad hatter, lick up the lawn stains from the mower’s lividity
8. Let uncertainty, little dove, labber across the pitch behind the church
9. Let the long-winded neighbor latrate with his featherless wings
10. Let us, little rabbit, ping the world’s lungs long in the canyon’s thunder
11. Let loss shrink
12. Let memory steal the unknown from us, regardless of postage
13. Let love linger
Let death slither out the front door, carry away unsolicited mail, we remain unopened
14. Let loss stain rocks and knees buckle
15. Let longing leg over us in the blossommeadow’s path
Let us lay on the beak of a mountain together under the sun’s lathe devoured by birds
16. Let love linger for awhile
