Lattimo Poem by Vahni Capildeo

Lattimo: milk twist, mist hint.
Venetians pearled minerals -
lead, lime, tin lime - thicked
clear glass to quasi-Chinese
porcelain for simple painting,
birds & flowers. Fingers twirl
composite stems whose colour
twist rock-candies, snake-ladders
precious yellow, less-rare green,
birdclaw red, while blue, longed-for,
yearns like a certainty
expressed by convolution
but inwardly a wynd of truth.
Contemplate, for a moment
(l'attimo), how just as when
incalmo joins bubbles blown
separately - two, while hot,
made one - each listed item
here desires liquid, lips;
lights prunted below looped eyes.