series1bk3.6.4

 

Waste no tears on the fearful pile the worrying 
hurricane splintered in its wake, as you make grand
plans
for new homes, sprucely tidied
with pride - in quest for neat domestic bliss.
A kiss whispered from behind a muslin yashmak
hushes restraint like a chosen posy of flowers,
her lowered lids coyly lifting to suggest
the best intentions - a bland panacea.
Sheer-edged and unsmiling, his lips
are clipped for sparse communication with eyes -
in the guise of a hawk - which no affections seek;
he speaks direct, informed, inflexible substance.
     A mother's husband and a father's wife,
     as such, must integrate within my life.