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