Thank you to Teresa Vito for permission to use her art! To see more of her work, visit www.teresavito.com
poised
with you
the scales seem
to tip
from one hand
a weightier sweetness
& ease
from the other
a rarer grace
& sweetness
toward affinity
are undressed
clear-eyed
fully embodied
your pose sidelong
almost Egyptian
life is lifted
expectant
for the moment
stilled
how I am tempted
by my desire to enact
the image of a sacrament
the mere acceptance
& ingestion
of a pear
juice your manna
already running
down my chin
so stay poised
like gold
your offering
is communion
a gift to such as
we wandering adams
who happen to enter
into your steadfast
radiance