enter feathered hymns
chirrups and chapel
where everyone waits for you
to come like a flash
of lightening

daybreak reaches
as one flame a seam
against midnight's wound –
nature restored in us, lover
return

dogwood petals
opening as a starry night –
of all the dreams
are any
true?

missing lake light –
sky blue patient folder
in the biopsy suite

last birdsong –
ancient cathedrals of ribs
and roses

black water
as wide as night
wading in
over my head –
driftwood

a little red wine
to face a river
I cannot cross –
this dark night
we are all starlight

rainy eyes
waiting on crocus
light

Coltrane tapping
the pane –

longing
is always
now

river
overflowing

you can't leave
and you can't stay

waiting on lilies

tiny chickadee
at my door

mosquitoes
in March

utterances bloom
as orgasms
of spring

first jay feathers
geese in pairs

pine boughs lifting
unto light –

winter's crevice
making you

this bridge

softened earth
and elongating light
becoming kin

Spring

on my knees
light leans
closer –

a little lost
in this wild sea
floating on prayer

I remember
how I landed
here

diving
into my midnight
lake –
seeing nothing
into nothing

winter's pale burnoose
waiting on light
and me
tucked into this envelope
destination settled

remembering black
bears

Vermont, veils
and visions –

a mountain river crescendo
meaning more now
than ever

always steady
and wiser –
walking the dog
of desire
every day

flesh
within my flesh
love's home –
found and lost and yet
longer divided

unable
to renounce
desire –
love cannot divide
God's Own Heart.

string music
elongated

below
the cloud deck

dying
and rising

unto origin
sacred tones

for sparrows
and doves

our song
ongoing