Embryo of Loving

The embryo
of loving
is an awkward
purple spirit -

fragile capillary
lodging – faintly
visible – beneath
thin skin:

you think
it may be
branching from
the heart –

but cannot really
make out
more than
that it’s part

of what
you only
almost sense.
You wonder –

somewhere,
in the dark –
if there
resides some

private silent
resolution in it
to develop
and embark.

.