A garden blooms into flowing fountain c a s c a d i n g decadent milk As c r u s h e d jasmine flowers Join velvet b l o o d rose petals Kissing full African marigolds Floating in time Captured wonder only to Flow deep into a copper soaking tub at the edge of the world My gaze softens As fingertips brush liquid silk The memory of you Brings a shiver d o w n my spine As thin cloth falls onto warm stones I step in And sink d e e p To release held in heat Bathing As the birds sing under the sun I look up at the sky Bright and blue Slow moving clouds Mirroring honeyed limbs Dipped in white A rustle of the leaves above
Before the raven lands Swirling ink feathers M o r p h i n g into my god of the dead Your lips find mine
Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole 