HERE

something as mysterious
as quarks   a pull like
naked charm sets in
changes the air
mysterious as what
happens in houses
where women who live
together a long time
begin to get their 
period on the same
day   something un
spoken runs from
pillow to pillow may
be while we sleep
like mice in the wall
forms the field of
apples and elderberry
into a sea of glazed 
green reflecting
more colors than an
ordinary prism   then
the birds come   you
drift all day in and
out of yourself
fly until a car churns 
up thru the gravel
like lights going on
at the end of a 
movie

- Lyn Lifshin


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