ghazal ("corners obscure")

Coming around the bend of time   and where are you?
searching my wallet for a dime   and where are you?

one should cry out! but toward what window? please explain!
pulling the cord you hear a chime   and where are you?

prayer is a custom still extant   God's gifts stay hid
throughout the film the hero's fine   and where are you?

silence is where the curd congeals   don't pearls form in
corners obscure? for pain takes time   and where are you?

poetry is for amateurs   like sport and love
amorous turns the ripened rhyme   and where are you?

often I thought I'd caught her glimpse   the fade came quick
parsley & sage   rosemary   thyme   and where are you?

every desire is fractured from   my sweetheart's smile
gather them up in one sublime   and where are you?

I have seen artists baffled at   the weight of years
maybe they lacked a paradigm   and where are you?

Raphael seemed a diplomat   his language smooth
bind him in cuffs for no clear crime   and where are you?