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

Their albino crow drivel indoors

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