Breath-lacy heaven-heart in recollection a flight down and down
from an unfathomably high place through a singing dome
tethered over vineyards
Dignified centuries on old pathways through the slopes, arounding
Dialect is always an echo, loosely
So give the hills a generous subsidy of tear-streaked laudos
Were routines? Ever, hardly……barrels through the musky road
Bang∌not a repetition of keyboard <banalities> from home
meanwhile satyrs cavort
with the eucharist
Flaring spired acidity—a brave gavotta, and rising fast in the glass
Still, daylight, stay, song of endless trust
that we will persist and
pertain
The roof tiles of Montepulciano bearing me caressingly as I drift…
unmotored now
Mouth still around the whispers of our intended
Return the moment
This poem was published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 412.
Andy Oram
November 7, 2018