shucking peas
alone –
almost
the whole world
in your hands
Maverick
/dogs
left behind
in shapes of regret –
where is peace
for fighters who do not fight
breakfast
/marigold morning
bent long over dirt
my hibiscus mouth
spilling the ecstatic heart
given to break the fast
Resurrection
/Morning light soft, of mellow golds
Our unbound voice of immediacy –
Grasp no more
Lay stories aside
Verily, verily, light fills.
To be reminded of love is forget the abyss
Rotting ladders of words
Yet we rise
Always safe
Sacraments, a fiction indeed!
A daffodil nods before the others
The salvation we bring
Lush days do the healing
Once there was you
Always you
Who summons me to drink
Who gives the infinite bread
Old ways crucified
Alabaster jar
Turning once more
Blossoms, bards for April
A rainbow's Whole of Love
Glorified at last
Two become One
As horizons disappear
Unbounded Sea
/loving
the pristine sea
of your name
every era
through every
ancient womb
our blue hills
of knowing
climbed
our spring zephyrs
drawn into wintering
lungs
yet now
my image succumbed
to death as advisor
our wilderness
overgrown and full
of briars
your light, my sun
angled for winter
and deep sleep …
Beloved
I brook no rival to you
not even the sun
and yet
we are imperiled
by leaden skies
how
will this black gale
leave
how will the moon
engorge itself
on love
and yet
as eternal as
our unbounded sea
your name
banded around
my heart
your gaze
a refining fire
for heaven's sake
your rivulets
pooling under
the gateway home
let us not turn
from the tidal wave
of the open sea
White Nothing
/coming
I see you
not in this world
but over moon
beyond stars
unconjured
yet enrapt
and just before turning
into white nothingness
I see you ending
it all at once
coming
October
/
walking
into October
skinny paths
and wide-open fields
of fading light –
distance yawns
as we now shelter
under separate
trees
Sawdust
/
what of us
kept in the pulp
of trees
and what of sawdust
in the wind
how busy we have been
naming timber