Eve & After
No sooner had the apple tasted Eve
than the whole garden fell in love
with her frailties,
improvising faults of its own
as if hoping thereby to grow
that mortally beautiful.
And Adam? From the low simplicity
of sleep he entered Eden for real
only as he woke to light
and was told her name, whose touch
became his favorite surrender.
Though the garden's been dust
such a long while now
that none of it's true any more,
Adam still loves daydreaming back
to his every imagined perfection
last seen alive in her smile.
