saudade II

saudade

Of a bird I first saw nesting

"Eyes have we and we are forever prey
to each other’s teeth."

bite everybody on the lips for me

the boneman

the boneman said he would take the blinded to a river.
with a mirror. and then what.

the boneman said he would take the blinded into a darkened room.
and put a hot-herb poultice on their sightless face.

then leave them there.

they would have been blue. the eyes. she did not have.
blue as the chicory in yonder ditch.