Superficial Nerves

1 — She held a bouquet of cumulus cloud
2 — near this drizzling late afternoon, 
3 — on the soft arm
4 — draped with hyacinth.
5 — I am there; in the there, as if
              your house, 
              your bedroom
              your skylight
              your body 
6 — is with me
7 — persistently ignited,
8 — not with the unfurling of hues as if
9 — we had just devoured the sky,
10 — lonesome with emblems of guilt or agility
11 ­— which stay more dominant than self-denial.
12 — As it goes—
13 — it evaporates, this desire
14 — to receive this unhappy, inelastic practice. Then
15 — we will surrender & I will forgo
16 — that buttery blond.
17 — I will keep your pillows, your Greek myths
18 — on the sandy shoreline, 
19 — a cremated ear near my bedside.
20 — I will provide the music to 
21 — your skeletal inlets; I have such capacity
22 — for montaged sorrow.
23 — I have borrowed a quarrel from the house of 
24 — anatomy which has become a plausible 
25 — female account of dressing down 
26 — an understatement, a game contrived to shun 
27 — the nude posture instead of the nude figure.
28 — From an unborn camera
29 — the excursion is
30 — already photographed by 
31 — a small number of extended em dashes & 
32 — these exocrine glands.
33 — The key is here 
34 — is not to confuse an oyster
35 — for a battlefield of broken light bulbs. 
36 — I can empty a war into a basin 
37 — of self-doubt & watch inside of another war
38 — a bodice, coded by geometry, 
39 ­— held in an invisible cage by light
40 — for this scientific posterity.