Chateau If
by Peter Gizzi If love if then if now if the flowers of if the conditional if of arrows the condition of if if to say light to inhabit light if to speak if to live, so if to say it is you if love is if your form is if your waist that pictures the fluted stem if lavender if in this field if I were to say hummingbird it might behave as an adjective here if not if the heart's a flutter if nerves map a city if a city on fire if I say myself am I saying myself (if in this instant) as if the object of your gaze if in a sentence about love you might write if one day if you would, so if to say myself if in this instance if to speak as another- if only to render if in time and accept if to live now as if disembodied from the actual handwritten letters m-y-s-e-l-f if a creature if what you say if only to embroider-a city that overtakes the city I write |