It was
Esme(e) who began with eyes of violet
and sometimes the brows were black and strong,
arched and puissant they were, and
sometimes they flew away.
Sometimes
Esme(e) seemed so tall, with
shoulders sharding here and there where
they were not wanted, where they did damage,
scruffed bark, bent grasses,
squashed vines.
Sometimes
Esme(e) was a willow for grace, that fascinating,
that clement.
Curious,
in the meadow, left, sound
was not what it was other places, nor
time, nor expectations nor any of the things
to be seen.
Was
it the meadow?
Or
was it something else, perhaps laid
over like veil or chord like a dream
or hope, too, I suppose.
There were times, I remember, when
many things seemed possible. If they could
be thought they could be real, somewhere.
And anything could be thought. And
had been.
But
was it the meadow? Was
the meadow not stage or setting vital though
that is but actor equal, seeker pareil,
or, more?
I thought
it possible, recurrently, that
the meadow was mage.