And leaning to me like a flower on its stalk, [p. xxii]

Wait among the beeches

For your late bee who beseeches

To creep through your loosened hair till he reaches,

Your heart of dismay.

AWARE [p. xxiii]

Slowly the moon is rising out of the ruddy haze,

Divesting herself of her golden shift, and so

Emerging white and exquisite; and I in amaze

See in the sky before me, a woman I did not know