A hinge
Alexandra Mattraw

to bind one body
to another.

When outside,
light becomes
vernal, anonymous
weeds, timpanic
shades seen along the ribs
of freeways.

A faint piano, ivory
creased wind,
curtains billow
in round lines.

Who asks for a name?

Lavender ribbons air,
rubs the canopic
blue of skywash,
the cotton of
shirts, scented
by sun.