Eve
She will arrive
harder than autumn
dark with old fruit to
ripen the ground.
She will vote like frost.
She will look you
in the earthen eye
and embrace you
with compulsion.
She will touch your ice
and skin will fade
revealing soft clay.
She will enter
your warm places
curious and wide
like sky. Her steam clouds
will dance over
larger waters. She will
dress you for winter.
You will be stronger
than the way-down cold
where you were born.
Before night falls
pears will freeze on the bough,
orchard rows will
bend in prayer and the moon
will rise and rise in far-off mist
beyond this reckless garden.
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