i.
the dark visits you with a wish
of cut, a
temporary appeasement, a drab
opening of
oblong effusiveness, ostriched
possibility
and the brim of dawn, the drip
of bland ice.
ii.
we caress the lip of morning with ice as the pink of it is downed with feather with ice as the loom of it is stung with nice and a little plum we tomb the tank of heaven roam in circles of pity grope the pier of now we caress with ice