MOCKING THE WIND

She found my cousin mop-faced as a gargoyle,
his young spine Quasimodo'd against summer:
	"Careful!" his mother told him.
"You'll have to stay like that if the wind changes."

I will stand upright in your steady shining, 
wear for you nothing but my bridegroom-smile:
	oh love, I know already
the grey-glass moment when the wind must change.


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