She longs
to spend the summer
like a heart-shaped bivalve or a garden:
filmy,
dulcet,
flowering;

to
b e
invisible but detectable,
white from no contact with light,
vanishing;

to skip or leap about,
sunny, care-free,
having to do with a wedding;

to be that naïve young woman
in the place beside the fire,
older,
one of two equal parts;

for a formal expression of praise;

for the smell of earth after a rain;

to be, like those
great
porcelain
rivers,
victorious despite heavy losses;

and to find something while looking for something else.