Promising Her Enamored Reflection Across The Setting Denoument Of Meaningful Atmosphere Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Promising Her Enamored Reflection Across The Setting Denoument Of Meaningful Atmosphere



Incurable disease- Looking at the paradox in the
Sun-shower,
Dreaming of emptying baseball diamonds in a working
Class suburbia,
Freckle faced witches with no ambition
Stealing just two apple buds perfectly symmetrical
Under her blouse;
A languid antebellum out along the switchbacks of
Cerulean canals
Incrusted by the swift lived shells of husked insects,
Just as innumerable as the original armies of Spain-
I used to imagine in my cherry-red Oldsmobile,
Draining into her eyes, dabbing an adolescent immortality
Where it aches to fit,
Running my fingers like an otter swimming down her
Sun drenched spine, toy locomotives whistling around
The tree at Christmas,
The alligator approaching the minor birds outside,
The lawnmower quieted, the Mexican done with his job,
Siestas in the voluble bloom in a crèche of pointed-blue echinopsis,
And very soon some kind of fable will happen
Drenched in the cul-de-sac- The vulpes vulpes leaping
At the wild scuppernongs- always afterwards, some type
Of escape or defeat that was supposed to mean something;
Sated or hungry,
The naked gifts molted on the efficient rug,
And then on to dusk, breathlessly,
House-wives incrusted with inexpensive jewelry,
Their husbands like charioteers going to hit the glass,
And she is rushing in her body leaping off the dusk,
The same old alligators grinning as is she were their pretty sparrow,
A shinning afterthought which must not fear its graduation,
Promising her enamored reflection across the setting denouement of meaningful atmosphere.

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