Sunday, April 5, 2020

Erato Answers

Can I be sanctimonious about my most precious
feelings and experiences?
—No, that would be tedious.
If you want to fetch us,
you must use modest images to clarify your messages,
or you’ll send us
woolgathering. Dodge any hedges
to boldly harvest the fruit you’re feeding us.
Love fetches
the best price, but its lure lashes
us to the mast and makes us feel the blizzard—
the most precious
truths arrayed n imaginary baskets
laden with real fishes, when you’ve
figured out how best to fetch us.
Showing myself living my delicious
life, harried and hazardous—
never smarmy or sanctimonious,
till death do fetch us.