A Winter’s Walk

This is of a love that’s ever (the smile
         Of her appointment’s dentistry)
She defeats resistance. Her plumb bosom
         To be round with it frankly, desire.
She keeps floral (––many aweing closer
         To cascade her may ill afford.)
         Summary, hers, mysterious air.
I’ve been much advised against her:
They say, “She’s nothing really.”
         They are so right,
For when she troubles valuables
         Devotion to her mads me to Bosch’d
Obsessing my days.
     (There is a life
         Warmth’d to pulsed, fleshed,
sensed with common approval.
         Organization into being sings
From a reality turned even to an enchantment
         Siren’d to me.)
But when she’s stranged I behold her
For what she is: fashionable.
The richly over-sexual.
         Through the twigs float her eyes ––
No faith of worlds in them
         Souless the orgasms in her dark sheets.
She’s yearn –– it’s my body she wants

         And to be my mother

Credit

From World’d Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins, edited by Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough © 2019 by Russell Atkins.