love song for light
………. -for Lucille
they’s fools
who cannot
see you
In the long
black lake
a wood duck
surfaces
Who says
she has no
color
With a flick
of your tail
you spangle
the sun
Mother
Sister
Lover
i offer you
my scrawny love
World of a woman
woman
by Stephen Perry
from Questions about God
Humanist Press, 2013