watch her disappear

last night i dreamed that i was dreaming of you

and from a window across the lawn i watched you undress

wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair

that rose in strangled ebony curls

moving in a yellow bedroom light

the air is wet with sound

the faraway yelping of a wounded dog

and the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak

your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat

a light goes on and the door opens

and a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard

a wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air

i hear your champagne laugh

you wear two lavender orchids

one in your hair and one on your hip

a string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk

circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo

and i hear a banjo tango

and you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree

and i watched you as you disappeared

i watched you as you disappeared

i watched you as you disappeared

i watched you as you disappeared