First I googled her hair. I hit a starry night, honey and sardines packed in oil. I googled her eyes: quicksilver, whirlpools, moons, proof of God, head-shops. When I googled her smile, one Proto Indo-European website, illegible to modern minds, wise beyond lovers' dreams. While I was at it I googled her instep: mangoes, asafoetida, even a lambchop. And her breasts in their oleo of moods: shy breasts, fervent breasts, jokey, preening, faux-tut-tutting, waves of leaping salmon, gasps of breaching whales a polevault's parabolic float, defibrillator outlets. Then I googled her heart, but Google came up empty empty as a punch in the stomach, Did you mean “hurt”? Not thousand know it alls end to end, not Anima Mundi, not the oracle, not the Answer Man. God Omniscient shrugged his bony shoulders Not a thump, not a murmur.
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Bill, this might be your best poem yet. It's so freaking good! Oh my. It's beautiful. And "asafoetida"! Wonderful.
This one made me flex between now and forever ago- what a journey! Thanks and well done.