The Mountain Tops The Rivers Edge Poem by James McLain

And her sister's face I feel a secret truth.
I can't see her face
overwhelmed by this attention face to face.
The staff and cup she shakes I fill the other.
Hope of the black sea the poet god and sleep.
Phantoms from another life
runs shallow deep the oceans breeze.
Full and heavy chosen by the fairy cries in the dark
the nasty boy he comes on mine each day it meets.
Sleeping poets sleep and days before one mind.
Queen is the poet of humble origins and modesty.
The worm the day before and by night the devils toe.
Hungry moons I reach around the other side
a finger moves it each spot a special woman understands.
Trapped deep within her robes her panties make.
Ornamentation are her spurred red leather boots
they play distant in the sky and thunder lights the road.