Nap When We Are Married
First we are lying in the grass in
the shade close to one another,
we are taking rest. So I say
are you as afraid
of your mother as I
am in love with beautiful
women walking down
church steps to their cars?
Then of course we have
a quarrel until I become breathless
the trees are breathless my hands
are breathless everything is
near to us and then a copperhead
is very near to your leg. I look
to the copperhead and then I look
to the foothills the mountains in
the distance everything is in
the distance there is something
bigger than us and it is a star
if it explodes.