One Good Thing

Waiting on— a bed, bungled
proposals, castles, omelettes, well-
met trials, thumbtack trajectories,
bouquets, silos, asylums, silver
medal relays: a trip, a slip of wet
chamber waits on skin-sting, feathers,
pebbles inside alcoves, a crease
in the late-night letter, an auspice, aria,
moonsong mouthtrap, a grumbling furlong,
forgotten oases, homeostasis, a humble
offer, a home, a retreat, a charge, an open
coffin, audacious bunches of grapes, ground-
lings, water rings, whatever the weather brought
out of hiding— a warp-tale, a worm-soul, grand
jesters, navel-gazers, an oxygen alchemist
convention, hair-binds, staring contests, lemon
rinds— waiting on a pawn, a boarded-up
evening, a card, a draw, an auspicious cloud,
a transparent stream and dusty laws,
lavender, wrinkles, awnings, wings:
but done waiting on one good thing.