By The Joy of my Beloved

a life of orchestras + operas

botanic gardens +medicine chests

spacious companions + strong thumbed literature

finest velvet + vanilla

soft hands, well groomed, handsomely fed

cultivated pods filled beside well laid patois

opening educatively before the bright veranda of my

ecclesiastical aviary + contemporary health

let steam oven until

this flesh is basted sweet

+ my harp is played 

by the joy of my beloved