For Karen by Vicente Reyes

A Spell for Karen

Karen your beauty is to me sweeter than ripe cherries from the tree.

Your lips are like butterfly wings I think I said one cozy autumn eve

As we sipped firewater from a well but my thirst was like a sieve.

There are so many beautiful women but you have lovable class as you

Gesture to me and speak of what you wish would be and ask if I see

What you mean and I nod mesmerized by your fair presence. Oh come,

I want to take you the mountaintop where I come from, where The Sun

Shines radiantly on you and me as we dance like wild flowers in the rain.

We bend but never break, do we, and we are so many shades of day

That even in the night the rainbow light will fill our hearts with joy.

I wish I could steal you from your garden and take you home I would

Lay you on my bed and listen all night long, yes we would be so warm.

I awoke on your floor after the water call and it was pouring as my soul

Was flowing toward you with a special embrace I wish I could define,

Its not as if I could capture the singing nightingale and cage her melody,

No, rather it is more like the dove whose coos I love and whose flight

I have dreamt in visions of night and in reverie when the beauty of you

Comes to me like a smile nobody around can explain and so I say now

Just between you and me that I love you so even if you do not care how.

In a midnight spell I lit a golden rod for you, and I shed a silent tear

For it is past summer and early autumn winds have swept away sorrow,

And not wishing it back I evoked it for a moment as the alchemist will

When he seeks gold from lead and the base will distill for the gross

Is grist for the mill. Now your kisses in the night, sweet vision, do

Bring back to me soon by the waxing moon for I’m dreaming of you.

October 25, 2000

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