the Woodcutter

Eve’s theory of gravity
combines a water color with sundry
forms of poetic justice

retaliation theory in a graded wash
edible garnish, masking fluids
poetic visions of the female pelvis

swept by theories of color
evolution, craft words
and prehistoric young women

with braided hair, linear transformations
imprinted on abstractions
invariant theory, grid structure

bestowed, an artistic interest in nuts
the opportunity
to speak from a sandalwood box

on her own behalf, reads
the image, the Offspring
of Coco-de-Mer

analyzes, influences
reclination of the tongue
in the cheek

on the Chinese dragon chair
bemused
through the window

on a summer day, the Woodcutter
sunlit rhythm unhid
by clothing or gravitational

attraction, a factor of theory
quote me
never dwarf the little man