Reclining Lady of Six-Eighty (2)

August 27 

   Reclining Lady of Six-Eighty  (2)*

The fabric of the canopy overhead

and lie of bed clothes around her

varies with the morning weather

and colored light dawning over her knees

I have turned to look upon her hidden

under a silvered veil of sheet

forehead, shoulder, knees in silhouette

slumbering in fog of sleep

And I moved that morning in sleepy fog

about my business with underlying hint

of familiar form beneath subliminal cloud

and rounded edges of reality

The perfunctory memory of the hand

working routine daily tasks

frees the mind to drift in search

of a familiar naked form

*From a series written from 1998-2001 (I was 53-56)