All At Once 1984
All At Once
1984
september 1984
jp melville
Beneath
this azure inverted plain
Our sky my
sky her sky;
We have
sound awakening to the dawn:
Her voice
on the phone talking, wandering travels…
She there
downstairs, the stillness, birds, and careful listening
Somewhere
far away the highway drifts sounds beckons a mile away
She turns
her eyes to the windows,
Turns to
listen…
Birds
chirrup, footsteps grind in gravel driveway,
Tractor
rumbles warming to work,
Horse
snorts, whinnies
And distant
far far far…. clack metal wheels a train to nowhere…
Goodbye in
whispers, she hangs up the phone…
All about
her stillness in the house downstairs
Coolness,
quiet, wooden floors, coral coloured walls
Dry crisp
air alive, with morning light,
Two dogs
she wakes, calls them:
“Roo! Roo!
Lara! Lara!”
Her hips
slide through the rooms the dining room, the kitchen
To a sink,
a mirror
To see herself
To brush
her teeth, she watches her eyes her own…
I lie in
bed wrapped in sheet
On my
stomach
I hold my
bare calves and feet behind me
Rub them
together while I write…
The
sunlight reaches just to tips of treetops hardly yet
A roar
drives by in distant fields
And nearby
someone pittering, puttering about outside
Workers us
me you them she all of us but not today
For today,
my knee cracks
And she
watches almond eyes in the mirror, all gone still…
What is
beautiful to me?
Imagery
Of her in
my home, her home…
Her face,
her hands, her voice, her almond eyes
To which I
see
To which I
hear…
We beneath
this morning’s azure sky
There, here,
she there, me here
Dream-scape,
moment-scape
Our sky
inverted plane, our fields our barns our home
All at once
beneath this morning’s azure sky.
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