I break the mirror waterwise,
Shattering reflected skies
Above our pool. I cannot bear
That any cloud be perfecter
Than that which, breathing, lives below …
Piebald waters on you glow
Where sun and shadow — light and shade —
Mottled on your arm have played.
You sing our Eden’s comeliness;
And yet its fountain-head you miss,
Nor conjure anything that were
Than all this magic lovelier …
Only one cloud is beautiful–
Your lithe body in the pool.
(Benjamin Musser)
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