The Tapestry
--Forrest Gander 

.......................—for Pilar Coover 

Me, when I think of you I see
Alley cats in your kitchen,
God weeping at your openings,
Individual acts of imagination, never
Culligan men under 

Floorboards slipping hallucinogens into your water.
Let me say I have imagined you
Undressing guests before mirrors
To let their dragonfly bodies
Escape from human shells.