For Barbara visitor I carve...

For Barbara visitor
I
carved forest bronzes, tracings ice crystals leave forward the windowpane; coat it with paraffin, then scratch whatever you like into the wax, the design can be quite delicate; the acid bath - careful, the least splash will scorch your flesh away
II
away at last, the extended dark slope of the land captured in haze, the broad sea, sluggish at first; my heart's ablaze, she said, something is certain to carry us somewhere sated of purpose; don't ask me by what mode I know these things
III
these things left on the outside in plain sight, their near arrangement not the least