THE PEWTER VASE

Believing in another season
revealing wings to small
                                        animals

                    and claws to the sky
         
                    Your pharmaceutical precaution
shattered by the window rock
hurled in envy

Lace will document (eventually)
the myriad lives you've lead
to this conclusion:

     The ugly women
      pursue the ugly men

      I am entranced by rails
saying little to the moon.