fortune telling

this is the evening

two poets
will sit back
into an
unlikely september night
on a
raining porch prophetic

full of monday revelations
in their late summer afterglow

discussing
red ribbon theory
and unified plane intentions

he
a sea god
immortal
flowing hair
chest striped
with the blues of greece

she
ethereal
woman from a painting
who danced into his life
to strains of african jazz

this is the evening

he will give her
a trinket purchased
in the hope of her existence
while traveling through taos

a silver hair pin with
lapis lazuli
blue and gold ocean
adorning the center

stone
given to queens by kings
throughout time
from england to sumer

meant to bring forth gentleness
and cause deities to rejoice within the wearer

useful to witches and shaman

a fertility charm given
for weaving
bonds of affection between lovers

this is the evening

they will begin to wonder what their child’s laughter would sound like
as the sound of their voices
float above
the hydrangea bush

this is the evening

they
will
fall

in love