To change so that nothing should change.
It's easy, impossible,hard, worth trying.
Her eyes are if need be now deep blue, now grey,
dark, playful, filled for no reason with tears.
She sleeps with him like some chance
acquitance, like his one and only.
She will bear him four children, no children, one.
Naive yet giving the best advice.
Weak yet lifting the weightiest burdens.
Has no head on her shoulders but will have.
Reads Jaspers and ladies magazines.
Doesn't know what the screw is for and will build a bridge.
Young, as usual young, as always still young.
Holds in her hands a sparrow with a broken wing,
her own money for a journey long and distant;
a meat-cleaver, poultice a