Heart Pierced by An Arrow (2000)

Heart pierced by arrow:
a signet of assault
by Eros. Love’s rebirth
on a shaft of white fire
when she says
O Yes
and I write O Boy.
All I ever wanted
to know in that
swift pierce
from half to half
of a heart.
My birth tattoo,
my epitaph.
God singing while
he warms his hands
on my pyre.