Mesmer's
Insomnia
In our afternoon sessions, lockets of magnetic
light blur
the spines of firs in the private holiday of her induced sleep;
childish, her eyes widen, devoted to a glair
of inward, fabled knowledge I choreograph, and keep
secret. At night, in the desolate hair shirt
of her absence, I own the lodestone of her wild weeping:
it bespeaks the potent silence of her cloistered tongue--
a zone I cannot enter but whose passion I reap,
lured like nocturnal geese honing off over the Danube, restlessly
obedient to laws chauvinistic and infidel--and deepening.
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