O Beloved
O my beloved ...have I drawn in you
...my luminous inestimable atmospheres
have I in black and white droplets... instilled for you
that ...it is balmy ...devouring and dear
have I seized you with careful crystal threads
bound you tight
with soluble thoughts that salt and pepper the pages
in your given name
have I held your hand in running cold ever streams
let our hand heat merging
...deny arctic dominion
have we fingered wet rocks side by side
our arms extended from our wrists in unison
such that you have seen it?
O my beloved have I in my song origins set in you a tablet of ascendancy
...the pale radiance of rapture
the darkened obscurity of heart-break ...exhaustion's collapse
O my beloved have I ever owned your supple maw
...your bowing being?
...your sequestered self?
and as for this...weight of life is light and dense
as sun on water flirts and moon caresses
firmness of bush and brook and moth and tree
....strikes stars!
to rip the soul a-wide to all things
O how the flowers explode forth in your name!
the bees to firmament alight!
the grasses grow deep seed green...
even sea foam frothy
perceiving your breath... it's perfume to bring to my wanting lips
I am as the bark on the tree...
cavernous
russet... fragile and burly brown
I command channels ways of spun glass...
in orange ...red ...yellow and gold
Chihuly...am I...
O beloved
I am and the sea is my quintessence
...and you are a shell of perfect pearl
resting in my pink palm
holding the stratosphere in yours
(written long ago...edited today)
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