Not Art But Love (1995)

Not art but love:
she who walks
so naked outside
cathedral walls.
Whose smile defeats
their shadow.

Her heat
blooming indolent
and sweet,
a svelte sea
singing in the dreams
of island boys.

Her eyes so deep
in blue to make
God weak
in the knees.
A pond
of sapphires
ultralucent
in art's utter dark.

Most herself
when this
enchanted glass
shatters.