Another Elegy

 

 

 

I

am, she says,

            a school of fish

 

 

 

 

            breathing gleam

            magnificent blue

 

 

 

 

                        (wants, of course, a Cohen poem / slow green kisses

                                                                                           for her snow-bruised skin

 

 

 

                        wants a flood of small, bright heartbeats

                        darting up to warm salt/sun

 

 

           

           

            she thinks: one thousand, flex and scatter

                                                                                   

 

 

 

                                                                                                         (luminosity, great

                                                                                                                                   joy)

 

 

 

- Shannon Less