Come trudging Come baring blunt fangs Come with haunted sleep Come lay your head down in my lap Close your eyes Relax your lips I’ll lean over like wisteria vines Enclosing our safe space
Lay it bare
l i s t e n i n g
Look a warm breezy field Undisturbed Sunlight the color of unripe corn translucent pale gold draping like chiffon on thick clouds Evergreen treetops leaning like sun tired childhood friends While loamy soil nourishes infinite blooming vivid flowers Hypnotizing round bumble bees to dance Monarch wings fluttering in and o u t of tall green foliage s p l a t t e r e d with wild candy toned petals An earthy smell long forgotten streams into sweet flowing water bending like lounging snakes along fine sun bleached sand Rounding into sharp cliffs Becoming thunderous waterfalls Making a home In scaling limestone caves of quiet majesty This place is for you
To Rest
To Breathe
I was spooked by the deep weariness in your eyes skepticism I smooth down obsidian roots of hair beginning to grey turning white at the temples I graze the moist from your now delicate crepe skin your veins surface slowly from milky depths like sleeping koi I hold your cheek as a small ring of hope reflect in pupils w i d e n i n g In the shadow of moon beams Irises like molten lava pleading to be set free Tears s p i l l Bleeding into formed crows feet Free falling Sliding onto my thighs I dip a blue purple bloom in the wet And brush it on Sunken lips parchment paper dry You ask for water
Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole 