i had a dream that
you brought me jewels
that you swam up on
my shores
salty and thirsty
as ever
threw yourself on
my soft swelling
dunes
shook yourself off
and with a roar
showed me a
mouth full of your
hard shiny
love
i had a dream that
you brought me jewels
that you swam up on
my shores
salty and thirsty
as ever
threw yourself on
my soft swelling
dunes
shook yourself off
and with a roar
showed me a
mouth full of your
hard shiny
love
i gather the clouds
in my net made of
golden jellyfish
i scoop each one
up with my bare hands
feel their nebulous
shivering ghostly
bodies recoil as
they smell electricity
nearby
i press my neck
against the sky
let the wind stroke
my hair
i focus on
accumulating
coolness
instead of
longing for
a volcano
vacation
again
paper cranes in
the sky
silently follow
cacti beneath
slow shadow
moving across
thirsty earth
until the shadows
grow creeping
moss
damp beaten
trail sucks into
a world of
no more sky
instead rows of
green headed
pines dancing
alongside
ghost
trees
where silence
goes for
peace
branches
stroking
branches
twisted winter wood
scraping against
the bluest truest
sky
quarreling birds
gravelly squelching
tires
barbecue playing
summer tricks
in someone else’s yard
baritone spanish
singing old
love songs
every eyelash dipped
in gold from
this strange winter
sunshine
this fleeting
sweet
now
i still wear
your
pin
though it fit
better when things
were bigger
it fit better
when it was covered
in your scent
when i could roll
around and pant
all over it
it fit best when
i found out
that you were
a person who
did every single
precious
meticulous
intricate
thoughtful
thing
for
love
though it fit
when
i was one of
those things
too
though i won’t
be a thing
again
i still wear it
because the color
looks nice
on
my
heart
the
ghost of
a moth
the most fragile
perfect curves
the gray on gray on
gray on ether
on whisper heartbeat
watching is a
fire breather
lacy flames in
sips and swallows
illuminating the
night behind
the thick velvet
sky sulking
once again
snubbing by
the moon
the darkness
has reached the
threshold
is
snorting and clawing
and baying to
come in
the viscous kind of
darkalldayallnight
look into the
distance try to find
any light
desperate howl
inside
it’s beating
down the
door now
my sword
ready so
come
the dawn comes
slinking in
stretches itself
until it
splits into
curling unfurling ribbons
snakes around the
darkness until
it’s a golden
crown
opens itself
wide and swallows
down
deep
here is where
i begin
again
here is where i
worship
supplicate
bring my
most precious
offerings
with
for
because
love
you don’t like it
when i get in
your head so
i don’t
instead i collect
white roses
make a pillow of them
with the strength of a
mountain
just in case you
need that
particular
fragrant breast
to lay your
head on
you don’t like it
when i stroke your
(soul)
so i don’t
instead i write
songs of loyalty
and sing them to
the wolf moon
until she weeps
stars
counts herself lucky
lights herself on fire
just to witness
love like
this
again
there is a way
to hold fire
to watch it
dance in the
hands of another
there is a way to
feel the flames
slide across your
face
down your body
until you
walk on lava
trail embers in your
dresses
stand holding
hands with
the hottest
forest fire
you have ever
known
and here’s something
else
you can also
put it gently down
let the staccato hush
of your North Star footsteps
be your
lover
instead