Over my blanket –
translucent but heavy,
a bronze blizzard
happens
– the bell voices
are ringing the drawings,
the fragments of cosmos.
No, not the couvre-feu,
and not for the service –
the immortal of our maternity –
a symphony with no notes-
unknown to us,
who know nothing of ourselves.
The bronze voices
cast from Siberian nickels,
Italian liras,
shillings of England
fall from the bell tower – the sky,
over my blanket –
translucent but heavy,
into the amphitheater of my bed,
the matrass aches
in vibrations,
the bellringers continue
over
my roof window
the blizzard
seen between Taurus and Gemini
in metallic brown
sharp
flames.

*Painting “The Leap” by San Francisco artist Elly Simmons