#54:3

[chicagoreview]

There's a chapel in Le Havre

where he saw a cortege emerge

and a woman holding a model boat

simply, among mourners

Now was it a lending, licensing

or purchasing agreement

securities transaction or reorg

sent him to Le Havre in midsummer?

C'etait mon frère du ciel

ma vie   mon or

The beveled edge of aquarium glass

vanishes into its work

Where the sunrise and sunset

are selfsame mobile

seahorses greet 

by curling lucent tails about

each other's paunches

pouts yawn

nictitating membranes recess

— "One Thinks of Due Diligence," by Ange Mlinko, published in Chicago Review 54:3.