I am in awe of you
Women who decline definition
Who walk on soundless feet
On legs that suport my earth
You, who fall from the sky
Heal with your hands
Pray on strings or keys, and straddle grace.
You, who create beauty where dull eyes met nothing
You are my alpha
The inner Call of Truth
Leave your prints in warm soil
I am right behind you
Changeling before the sun
Offenses in the wind
Love too new to know
And insides bend
Heavier than grim
Like silver brick
A thing of shiny substance
Melted into thick
From her neck it’s fallen
No more weighty bird
Only one of memory
The ghost of her own word
You are my homeland
One who cannot be carried
Following the bends in the road
Like a swallow, I know
A nest is my nature
Woven with ruby threads
Ethereal love
Sensing the smell of approaching storms
To look on the tanner
Corrupt with transmutation
A brass scientist
Mad from the ordinary
He dusts off his tools
To weather a hide
Etching lines of demise
Visible history of hurt
Oceanic myth-brute
Now, it absents the self
Leaving a loner behind
Clutching the suspicious skull
She raises the crushed thing
Wades in the space left by the other
The exacted one
Somewhere, the deep eye wakes
In painted blackness
Strokes go unseen
What is brilliant
Is drawn from memory
A thing unfaded
So unlike this breached love
A rolling brush in water
And permanent seeks form
Cold like despair
I shake
The revelation was a rest-stop
Picking up my blank bible
I drive on
Feeling the effort-pull
The carrying away of grace
Buried with my little love
The secrect aches
All over my skin
For I am bruised by the dive
A sparrow into rock
I settle on a crag
And consider what’s done
The longest day
Starts when everything stops
A silent halt
Rends heart from girl
For an eternal moment
Sanity falls to the floor
What’s human is lost
To the pure, primitive pain
She stares at her own drowned truth
Her failure is watching
Glassy unseeing eyes she thinks still move
Holding her hope in trembling palms
She weeps
For the things that are lost
For the things she may never find
