Matina Stamatakis (Albany, NY, USA): "Naked (for Mona Mur)"

NAKED (for Mona Mur)

soft planchette askew mine eye
which corners this triangle
with an open palm? these dowsing
boards & trompe l’oeil ?

your body: arches swirl around a dark
alphabet— I have witnessed the grand
eclipse of constants: eddying ellipses
I hold dizzy the nude blur

will eye eventually purge the visible &
release the invisible from your mouth
of three slopes ?

have we bespoken the gauze-silhouette
that touch of brow so gentle it belongs
in the scriptures to claim the sacred-kept

but for you there is no fragment of sleep
in the palimpsest for you I am
but a channel— amateur palmist
soured by revelation

in the eye of your colossus-root
I have taken-in & kept
at a distance

© Matina Stamatakis 2007