overtures of love

on the wires above,
courting pigeons coo and hum
like their hearts will break.


overtures of love,
observed from afar, become
perfectly opaque.

There are three things that amaze me—
no, four things that I don’t understand:
how an eagle glides through the sky,
how a snake slithers on a rock,
how a ship navigates the ocean,
and how a man loves a woman.
Proverbs 30