By some standards poor
several suitors
some imagined
she has summoned conjured
sung and danced for them
one by one
not to be
but, he says, He is the one for her
she has been watched
it is on the whole notes of her body
He is to be played
not found in the discordant sharps and flats of
sermons hymns and prayers
but from the water she draws up from her
own soul's questing well
will come the sweet song of wine
gladly given and received