Here & There

Transit my dolorous planet

benevolent conduit,

luminous love.

Slip across my meridian

gently as milkweed

aloft.

Pillow me

wordlessly

in your blue.

Here below,

on this broken tor,

this spiny divide,

I cannot decide

to which ocean I flow.

Tethered eddy,

I pony-circle ride

heartbreak

again

&

again.

Unhitch me &

let me sigh into you,

slowly unfolding, unfencing

under cottonwood whispers high

& low trilling crickets and toads.

Hold me in the glow of late-night radio.

Incandescent brushes of your hand

smooth tear-matted curls.

Echoing shushes of snares

you breathe,

a willowy sax lullabies,

a piano skips stones easily~~

warm kisses

across the black air.

And the bass,

upright,

steadily keeps time:

There

There

There.

 July 2008