bound together

            grains of sand begin to breathe

we shall hear the oceans drowning

 

strange to be immortal

            stars tasting my mouth

i shall grow a yellow house

 

first day of life

the moon counting

its delicate birds

 

streets walking with their heads held low :: i climb a distant radio

 

what did blue see from its window before it became an eye

 

a voice for things which don't exist :: i am egyptian in silence

 

are the passages missing from my shadow

written

on a fallen leaf

 

found asleep beside the weariness of spring

your mother when she was young

yet changed

 

a man breaks down

who was it you ask, what

was the weight of the stone

 

keeper of the solitary soul

permit me space

among the flocks of this earth

 

on a day without sound

adrift on a lake

my grave is unhurried

 

my hands cry out all night in their sleep

dawn rises

a hole in its palm

 

grasses

grow over my roof

a message drifts through the sky

 

do you know stones go blind when you kiss their eyes

 

who can ferry the sea out of its fog

 

lord, why do i grow cold trying to keep you alive

am i a petal waiting

for the sun’s eye to open

 

or the sky who’s chased

a small bird into breath

 

when did i learn that blue

is the planet of our death

 

can i say i love you

when there's no shore in sight

when mystery only mystery

may be all that survives

 

they feed the dead a cold sun :: we in the black beret

 

when you grow up i will have been so many years risen from the dead

 

why has the statue missing one hand :: chosen this morning to speak

 

when the moon is ripe :: why doesn't it fall from its tree

 

all night long knowing and not knowing the figure asleep on the shore

 

i showed her where i fell home :: she showed me the scar she left on the sky

 

every first sunrise preserves my belief :: a deeper, older fire

 

white coffin

now the waters are freed of ice

            and the four directions repair the wind

and the fields rise up to heaven....