Ambro Box                                                                                            Spring 2013

Text reads:

-Verity-

Do you think you will ever know me

as I am meant to be known?

The simple exuberance of flowers

belie their multiple and complicated unfoldings.

Like a wave,

            like a new star,

               like a heart,

                            like my mouth across your belly.

You are continents

                        and away

though your ripples supplant any

       immediacy around me.

I do not know you

        but I know

the secret prism of you.

It is as transparent to me as

the eye in the sky of night.

And though you may never know me,

in that prism I have glimpsed

          myself,        eternity,

and the closest thing to knowing

       which is the closest thing to love.