Wedding Outfit
for A.G.P.

as tangled up with her, with Haiti
as making cloth,
threads crisscross

as many going east/west as north/south
and so many colors

loom in Picardy, in France
where Matisse was born

submit to this, commit to it
or entities apart already

we in poems, inextricably joined
important that what is being blended
are the same quality, same quantity

fibers to make fabric
to make a garment with


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2010
9:40 a.m. 17.01.10