parting
/half-grown plants
awaiting summer crickets –
do birds or rivers
have a song
for goodbye?
prayerless
/emerging
from a cave
of trees
unto winter dying
in the fields –
my name no longer
a prayer
in your mouth
light answer
/speaking
to weeds in ditches
or to rest in the quiet
of ferns –
do we survive
on light alone?
black feathers
/crows
eternally watching
ask:
is your heel lifted
as if you would flee?
possess
/sunlight
about to touch
quiet skin
I listen
for the pines
in bloom
we hovered
at the edge
of air
I am
the object
I own
half moon
/kissing
the border
between us –
half moon mentions
getting to something darker
amnesia
/touching
the mango hem
of dawn –
I no longer know
the rules
My Affair
/professions
and a few poems
this wren on my heart
sings my affair
with cabins, and river
nearby
passion
as energy evolving
into homelessness
oh feathered dream –
I am thinking of you
but waking empty
ablaze
/what lives
beyond flesh
daffodil light
at dawn ending
all negotiation
in the hallow
/spring peepers
at the beginning –
when nowhere feels like home
it's easier to withhold
the whole truth
child-like faith
/at the water's edge
knees in her arms
like a child not knowing
if she is brave
or confused
Easter
/my first bluebird
ending the inner famine –
even Jesus ate breakfast
breathing
/spring snake alive
against drab leaf litter –
no degrees between Heaven
and the ribbons
of breath