Steel stitches into mountains
glass buttons up the blue;
the Bow invents a mirror
and asks us to be true
A runner ghosts the river
her breath a silver string;
she ties it to the morning
and names the knot “begin ”
Office lights confess early
their honey on the panes;
we watch the day get hired
and shake its chilly reins
When sun burns off the velvet
the sidewalks start to shine—
ambition needs its winter
to make the gold align