space has no gate except an eye. or the gap between lips

too parted. in your absence plates rattle. silence wails

behind the wall. to be healed, must all be crippled.

 

when a snowflake melts the path's completed.

no grass in the field. stars give birth to four in the morning.

i begin an endless sentence to forget all words.

 

being of one body, we undress together. down to a satchel

of lost poems. love hides nothing. lives in veins.

god's heartbeat's heard. when one pounds on stone.

 

the night you are not conceived silent messengers

come and go. to say a dark cathedral better houses the moon.

i will never get over how i abandoned my home.

 

from oneiric incoherence into a mirrorless day. each end of the sky

hangs from one cold tree. everyone marks frailty. lines of dignity that fall

apart. the star who climbs a crooked sky into the bed where her heart will stop.

 

skin forms around the shadows it will hold within. milk mixed with

night forms blood. the patient ship has raised up its lanterns. Jesus-like.

gnawed by the sea. while a simple cairn endures the frost.