3 | "With your full-moon heart" [pantoum]

Courtship is pulling with your full-moon heart
the sea is the world that heeds your love
if happily the horse may precede the cart
the lad in the meadow may need your love
the sea is the world that heeds your love
one grows through experience jaded and sad
the lad in the meadow may need your love
the secret of spring is a missive glad

one grows through experience jaded and sad
the jasper of courage becomes our token
the secret of spring is a missive glad
the circle of days remains unbroken
the jasper of courage becomes our token
the scythe of autumn is sighing for plenty
the circle of days remains unbroken
the wheel is strong the stone is flinty

the scythe of autumn is sighing for plenty
darling you dwell on the marge of thought
the wheel is strong the stone is flinty
lines from the willow with grace are wraught
darling you dwell on the marge of thought
the wisdom of balance abides in art
lines from the willow with grace are wraught
courtship is pulling with your full-moon heart



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A pantoum beginning and ending with a line borrowed from Annie Finch -- from her book Eve (1997).

This poem is no. 3 in a new sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums.

no. 1:   "The sundial smiled"
no. 2:   "In the school of disquietude"