By Ann Lauterbach, from a manuscript in progress. Lauterbach has published nine volumes of poetry, including, most recently, Under the Sign (2013).
An impermeable layer gardens
the sleuth patch, guarded and sworn
into rescue, or mission. The quaint
untranslatable song
forsaking its mild page, unfaithful as ever.
I’m dressed in clouds and they
are smirking at the edge
of late-age homilies, and the poor star
…