— mother virgin father hero — orphans from the bowels
of souls lost to their age — stared upon stranger
evolved offspring — from the love of the act
— the discretion of glands — the calculated withdrawal
— capable at profession — investments — dressing —
dinner —
theater — politics — cruises — crusades — tennis
— and therapy
— appraisals — as a morning mist spangles the sabbath
in coins of sunlight — and both — made vows — to each
other
— but winds sooner or later do get vicious — and few have
known
the down of a swan — fewer have had divine twins
fewer a cabin at the inner fire
— over a winter — wintering over — brings on the beauty
of a full-feathering rime to the frigid panes
incubating the excitations looking out and looking in —
[I imagine Helen and Pollux (one of the Gemini twins) — twins
themselves, the offspring of Zeus the Swan's violation of Leda —
so rare a pair of outcasts, had only each other's love, wherein they
throve through Winter.]
