Lux Australis
- Lux Australis
Early evening honey and whiskey, that sweetness,bees in the ever-blossoming tressesof your hair, darling, the touch of a handlike water in a parched man’s cup,
the way memory chimes its silver-stringed guitarlike moonlight on a spider web,milkweed stalks against rusted-out pickup trucks,their wandering seed our only constellations,
bells in the velvet darkness before dawn,that mystery, that consolation,worn-down paths we walk fortified by trust in simplicityand cans of beer in wind off the soon to be planted fields.
O let us reseed the garden and eat vegetable soupand never go to town, not even for bread.Let us inhabit this moment forever and ever.Live with me always in the scrapyard of my heart. [End Page 157]
Campbell McGrath is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco, 2012). He teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University and lives with his family in Mami Beach.
