Eye See Saw
for E.M.J.

questions, answers, eyes
no words to ask, no words to tell
no words to spell

just a dress between her
and the world outside
between her and looking
and seeing eyes

weighing eyes, wanting
to wear away daylight, Jericho wall,
even without a trumpet to blow

evening falls and her dress falls off
and she steps out

caterpillar gets out of
and back into its cocoon
in order not to risk
dust being rubbed off of
a butterfly’s pretty wings

which, when she flaps,
a tsunami in the Pacific commences,
sinks ships


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
1:19 a.m. 28/08/07