Cecilia White #3 When they ask you to explain my habit (Note to the Muse)

When they ask you to explain my habit (Note to the Muse)

When they ask you to explain my habit

Keep silent, look somewhere else

Point to a possibility sparkling

On a hill they could chase for themselves

Far away. Keep them there

You are my protector

Divert their eyes from my cause

And I will pause to reward you only

With my gaze, a drunken caress

Beyond all grace and meaning

I have no time for enquiry

Nor desire to justify my practice

It is more than they can imagine

Strangers as they are to a natural song

Stand at my door and keep me

At a distance from those others

Watch how I bicker with material gods

And tear at their robes

To fashion wings from a sky

You convinced me was all mine.

cw 2016