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YOUR CART

​IthacaLit spring 2015

everything pressing into being

I have traced my hand through clouds, climbed

into my boat and sailed across the day   You seemed to me
                                                                                      a little child and graceless

The washed linen sky of morning
               midday      the air drunk with light
evening leeches it out of the sky  
               birds chortle, bedding themselves

night     a moth harbors in my lampshade


the hours inch toward tomorrow
I learn to quiet my hands                           and scatter the grace in your eyes




you burn us

choking clouds    my eyes are dead to light  
                    my ears pound
exalted, drunk

                   and slender-ankled virgins  
                   crushing soft flowers of grass
as colored threads unravel
                   a mingling of all kinds of colors




Merry Benezra is the author of the novel Special Karma: A Zen Novel of Love and Folly. She lives in Mountain View, California. 
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