She walked alone onto the beach
at night and sang her mermaid song
into the wind and surf.
...
The sky was burqa-blue
when they carried your body
out of your home. Blue-on-blue,
background and foreground melded,
...
Venus rose with Regulus this morning
though I could not see so much as feel them
through the overcast.
Purring, stretching, lovers waking
...