top of world
is briefly so
sands squeezing into rock
rise up a warrior
towering reflecting every second of suns arc
breathing swift air steering clouds
kneeling down stretched arms bare
collapsing embrace warmth underneath
upturn and plough
bearing the next
warrior bloodbreath swims with us
over the longest mountains
rifts
canyons
and abyssal plains
we sailed
nicotania brings us here.
dark-leaf
yellow flowers
fire cured,
rolled down hills and blown across oceans
to speed a heart with so many beats
magma intrudes
even as a cathedral canopy of brown limbs
volcanos in the ocean
build paradises
that fall to pieces
and re-emerge
to be washed away
and re-emerge
the street was mostly empty outside the warehouse,
parking meters painted white
skeletons of bicycles
broken glass,
waiting for you to come out.
five young men walked past and up and across the street
a full beer can arced and thudded on the pavement
before they got in a subaru and drove past me going south.
a civic with a broken muffler drove north very slowly.
a small rat was coming out and going in a hole in an old loading bay door.
finally you came out
and we hugged for not long enough.
i slept through the sunrise but so did you
though you wanted to die inside that warehouse and almost did.
my satisfaction with each sunrise
is just an echo of the joy of the morning you were born and the times when we are good.
i want my love and desire for you to ease the pain enough for you to stay.
please don’t leave
sands flooded and heaped
when the water recedes
green and mottle
in light sky
before it returns
grenville
taconic and acadian
allegheny
hills rise in waves from mirovia
tethys
rheic and iapetus and atlantic.
alluvium settles.
every waters edge shimmers for now
from always
