"Charms for a Lover's Bracelet"

Charms for a Lover's Bracelet:  The Seasons

-- clover seeds immersed

          in a bead of dew --

-- noon's still heat embraced

          within crape myrtle blossoms --

--  crescent moon crossed

          by a bursting milkweed pod --

-- flake of flint sweetened

          by cedar smoke --

Charms for a Lover's Bracelet:  The Evanescent

It's the first lesson, loss.

                    -- Jan Zwicky

-- silken wisp of dawnlight --

          -- wind's tug and lift

                     of a strand of hair --

--frost's fractal maps --

          -- a blackberry's bundled curves --

-- urgent heat of your nipple

                    against my thumb --