Arizona Jean

         Arizona Jean

Pointed joints and folly taunts
And jibes, they haunt me not;
Nor clever jokes and tender pokes
Of who should and had not ought.

Not sullen stares nor amused grins
Cast in knowing intimations
Can still my yet persistent thoughts
And unsolved meditations.

Laughs and leers and months and years
Of wisdom-driven second-guess
Can't tear this mask of wonder if
You asked, would I still say yes.