the green pendant
with its expectant
gold ring of …
cheapens all the shiny clichés
of transformation
hung tight together for sale
from shelves in the self-help section
It’s the kind of thing a goddess
would wear on her second date
with a love
that definitely is going somewhere.
You’re forgiven
if you forget
for now
the life it holds—
that’s called
the surplus of the present,
for even if
it hung forever
with its expectant, golden …
unopened
you’d have seen enough
perfection
to last for years.