Vowels like wool worn (like a river)
Anne Gorrick
for Calder Olivia Brown
Cabdrivers lions owls
A cornbread brocade, her baldric olive
brillance/bracero
An iron caliber drowns the world in its viol
Violins (like bacilli) reword the world
cabins bacon carbon widow crowbar livid idol bead
Cover her:
in crows/clown voile/clover
in cod rondo/verbal colloid/overcrowd
Cinders (like relics) wince
Crown cloven, civil wonder, a divorce crooner
The divine dwells in her cradle
Her ribs ironclad and woodcarved
collard caldron/blini clavier/cordovan brie/crawlier veronica
Birds against the careworn acres or
Verbs carved into lilac overbirds
brindle, bordello, doorbell, bedroll, robins wived to coal, acorns rowel in carbide veils
Love rives around her like linen