i
had it
there – hoverfly to
sudden-flowering brain – what
it is – what this is
all to do
with
just
behind what
draws things to – almost a
scent – beyond – yet so
close as to gauze
it – only
just
beneath as
green bass-notes ripples
beside
enough to snag the eye till
it darts & i all
most
had it
– or what makes
thought sticky – these stamens
alert for one opening but
lost in grasping i
lost
silence & in its
sound the
petal
fall
Mario Petrucci
Illustration: Nick Victor