
B
Look she said to me the end
is similar to the beginning
when the first and last trees are a few
and from these you try to conceive the forest.
You don’t know — or you forgot — that Eugene
the hero is handsome because he wished to be
not because they heavenly
powers created him this way.
Standing straight up in the light-blue
he regrets complacently for violating his oath
he succumbed to his own beauty
and he hugged the squirrel.
The fairy tales — like love stories —
wander until they find the places
that best fits them
and Tom Thumb will seed
his destiny, hoping
to save himself from what
he left behind as his trace.