Where are the jewels? Have you forgotten them?
Strewn around your wrist and neck
The pearls and rubies from treasure chests
Where are your shoes? Are you going to walk around in bare feet?
Those yellow silk slippers, your leather boots
Your shoelaces tied tight with truth?
Where are the clouds? Where is the sun?
The billowing majesty breaking with light
The glaring lamp in your eyes
Late at night as you read French literature
melting into your chair
the Jell-O of your soul wobbling
with each breath
do you remember her?