Sestina (with some extra rules)

A baby crawls across a busy intersection, gets away
from speeding cars as a woman watches from a cafe. Love,
an old dog, brings baby back,
sets it down on the woman’s lap. Their breath
eases. The dog limps outside, its eye
dripping yellow. “We’ll have to drive all night,”

the woman in the cafe murmurs, “I am a knight
driving a beaten-down getaway
car.” Baby burps, as if to say, “I’m
satisfied. “And all for love,”
she says, and smiles, feeling the baby’s breath
on her cheek, while the dog, hearing its name, limps back.

The woman absently strokes the dog’s back.
It’s busy in the cafe tonight.
The dog, in obvious pain, breathes,
‘and then begins working away’
at an old bone on the cafe floor. “Love,”
the woman sighs, “‘Lord save me, thinks I.'”

“‘And what is it, thought I,’
when I first saw him ‘it was the second floor back’
of the jail. And it was love
at first sight.” The dog glances up, night
falls — “‘Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away,'”
she recalls — the cafe fills with bodies’ hot breath

while in her lap the baby’s breath
comes in quick gasps, its eyes
wide as waiters cut through on their way
to the bar, tripping over the dog’s hunched back,
crashing dishes. The baby cries, night
yawns before them, all that distance she’d drive for love–

The cafe is full of love.
Couples embrace, drink wine, breathe
each other’s scent, their night,
like the dog’s, just beginning, an old, rheumy eye
out roaming the streets, back
and forth, rescuing babies, dragging itself away.

Away she drives, “But I will come back,
tonight,” she promises, catching her breath–
‘She came to bespeak a monument for her first love.’

(I’ll explain the rules later but for now it’s off to San Francisco! –DH)

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