string music
elongated

below
the cloud deck

dying
and rising

unto origin
sacred tones

for sparrows
and doves

our song
ongoing

this day

diamond sunlight
our prism
rainbow minnows swimming

Easy Like Sunday Morning
glitter falling from cliffs
take my hand for this one

we are mending
abyss floors flooded
with the Living Water

my cup bearer
tell me again we go
together

love and longing –
summer's little red raft
drifting over my head

jarred peaches
cold on a hot throat –
what is Christmas
without Her desire
to know you

my steepness
is your ache
and my interior stone
shattered when climbed
no more

wind scowling
a longing in exile –
what is caged in flesh
found the secrets
searched

love notes landing
December's open sill –
cardinal verse

ruby tears in snow
mourning our species –
cardinal song

ascend!

only love
goes into love

and the sky burns
all the way down

moon-cheeked
abiding in your reflection
a blue sigh coming
at dawn

yellow on high
unfastened, unrepentant –
a sparrow claims her queen

Downy Dawn

bringing the kettle to boil
bergamot in bed
The Unremembered leaving
most of us by the river

browsing sheep
making hay
sunny sounds
of an empty afternoon

in moon lapse
our skin growing more pale
wild in parts
but learning better

woods whisper and sigh
over pine cones
and bracken
in my pocket

last of downy dawns -
my shirt sweeping
leftover stars
and scars

lusty moon
deeper into October
our new church

dirt road maps
curling in corners
of disuse –
we always knew
the way

falling acorns –

reckless

with a purpose

tell the truth –
a prism heart
can only give

Urgent Reports

cicada
clinging to summer
screens

6:30 a.m.
now too dark
to walk

unmade

sunset like chamomile
eyes roll back
an unmade bed

August nights
a spice savored
stars awaiting names

unable to keep any of it
our silken soul
unraveled

tangled

in blankets

and sheets

unowned

closing the circle
to marry the bliss
of our journey

wisdom
and patience
blessed

by the hands
of open heart
surgery