Aperçus Quarterly 2.1
Aperçus Quarterly 2.1 - Apercus Quarterly
Aperçus Quarterly 2.1 - Apercus Quarterly
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Lynne ThompsonNote Left on the BedpostFor My Ordinary IcarusFrom more than my balcony,you leap—patchouli in air,hymn like a wheel, a fictionturned hurricane on an atoll.You are ever-young, hairslicked from your temples.You are color and no colorand a pyre andmore harming than harmed.I’ll be sleeping when you comefish-bait, skim-over-sheer-water.Leave the letter you promised,precious between the blue ofits syllables, brine in its crease.Place its weight on my temple,my strange, quicksilver birdie.18