Particulars

Did you organise the Amethyst
By size like I told you?
I know we've been near here once before
But the stakes are different today
These past few months have just been to close to call

Did you rearrange the birthstones
By constellation like I told you?
And move them out from the foyer and put them
Next to the door where the light shines in
Glitter up the pictures of me and you in Mexico

On the night before the nuptials
Do you remember what I told you?
I know we love these girls dearly
But if things ever get worn down to bedrock
We'll head down south on the course we drew out years ago

And now for the particulars
Of this potent communion
In the nave of arcane currency
The twain not alloying in endlessly reaming amphora
And every level surface dispensing incomplete coinage

All among the highway and sirens
Twin widows mining for twilight
Unravelling a map in raven-rag
And giving out about these misplaced citations
But keeping places to keep
Storing landmarks to store

Now with string and a pin-prick
Routing the drive on a light-up globe
Unfurling the holiday wear and
Rerouting the cards all the way from Brevard
And down along the coast to the Montagua fault

I'll never show WIPs again
But I'll fake presages
Like a jealous chough

What glimmers neath the ruins now
What ruins all decisions now
The third ingredient was found

We let them watch the world go by
We let them watch the world spin about
We spin them words and let them live
They live as though they've never talked
They live as though they've never spoken
They live and leave the window open

I'll never show WIPs again