LESBOS by Beth Haist

Her pottery is glazed
In eons of particle dust
Older than the breath
That now condenses
Conversation
Is all she wants her tongue to hold-
She likes the flow-
The simple audacity
This simple consecration of words-
Orchestrated in the heavens
Lingering in our isotopes
 Belonging in the songs
Belonging in the lexicon-
Women who are in fact,
By invitation only-
Inscritped in india ink
On rice paper
Unsullied intrusion
Of beauty and happenstance.