Third Eye
I say
part of the eye has seen loss
part waits for it —
yet two horses mild as mild
dogs came into the house —
You say
we could agree to love them
while you read a book of accidental humor
in an etching, cylindrical engines
blow the man overboard
back onto the ship
aloft on fonts of water frothing
comic as sea-monsters to science
you tell me, Science
the mouse in my stomach is doubt
is the animal fear wriggling
yet sleeping naked I go closer to beloved
you naked in a distant state
as Buddha on the bathroom counter
holds something gold, maybe a lotus
or a flame, between planes
of his soles’ Limoges
a gray horse settles down on kitchen floor
before we touch her —
gladness fills the room
sunning the waiting, cracking it
open, on the prow a shark’s jaw
painted
open
O golden O gold
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