Terra Cognita Part 10

10.
(Then I woke and saw your body bright
against the buildings as a silver jet slicked by,
lined out against the sunset sky like love's true arrow.
And the golden clouds bloomed above the night
against the jadegleamed wall of trees.
And the gull pirouetted down on evening's fade.
And your wine was cold upon my lips.
And your touch sparkled electric in my breast.
And I wished to live the life of the body forever.)

The corpse lolling among corpses
in the brackish back waters of Lake Victoria.
The eye of that corpse among corpses
stained white as dirty snow.
The iris of that eye surrounded by blood,
            and rising in that dead iris
                  our single dead moon
                        daubed pale upon the bright noon sky,
                              reflecting everything we are.