Five Songs of Permanence

I

Love is draped loosely around her
Masks her, makes her anonymous
And she goes serenely unnoticed
Recording notes and emotions
Meticulously piercing and profound
With understanding
Cathartic religiosity
___________And paradox

___________________and surreality
_________with truth in contradictions

_____That she reflects
____Through so many poetic lenses
Before moving on in the silence
__of prayer or mourning.

II

She stands there
Still despite the cold
While I shiver
Mildly, anxious for the train
and its old electrical heat
____and its exhausting embrace
____She does not look out
_______She is remembering
Actively remembering
Days upon days of
Tiny observed changes
In the landscape of this
____temporary pause
Wrought and molded by anxious winds
_________that blow predictably
___________with each morning storm

III

_______My half-detatched waiting
Was dominated by
The contents of then
Sent but unread letters and silence
_____when she came and now is
_________here vaguely commanding
__Curious attention
She stands amid my thoughts themselves
As a rabbit in a field
____And the wind shakes my mind
And I see ripples and
_______waves
_______around her.
_She sees me and knows me as a part of the scenery.

IV

The train arrives and she has her spot
Where the doors will open
________________and
out out all around her
Is the crowd of
Pilgrims, all movings
Towards their stillness
and their scheduled respite.

V

She is on the car
She will see the sight
Of buildings and people
and haggard zephyrs
___recede, all recede
____She will leave
__________on the tracks that curve to the horizon
___and bisect me and my
changing daily landmarks.