The hour contrives a fragrance
of laurel and alpine water.
A baby follows with kitten eyes
the liede of rain on his cowry skin.
Then heavy drops thud in Iron Age rituals.
At windows geraniums blow kisses
to the gusty surge of trees
where turbulent shadows build
dungeons, unearth crypts
bind the dragon to the cloud
in a story that is retold
for no other purpose than
the mother, daughter, child
keeping their immutable vigil of love.
Mother has chiseled auburn hair
invincible Ptolemaic features.
Under the dark voluptuous foliage
daughter blazes like a harvest
Magi infant waves his arms
spell-binding the black lake
monogrammed with swans before
the mineral decrees of teatime
on thick rugs where the old
continent long made itself at home
and charm bracelets jingle across
the table like gold dockets of magic.
Stephanie V Sears is a French and American ethnologist ( Doctorate 1993 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), essayist, free-lance journalist, poet whose poetry has more recently appeared in Cha, The Legendary, BlazeVox, Eastlit, Linq, The Rufouscity, and pending in Calliope.
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–Art by Menerva Tau
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