Friday, October 12, 2012

The lizards on the bricks were chasing bugs

The lizards on the bricks were chasing bugs
and the short plants moved with the frogs as they
hopped to the shadow. The birds were muttering
a quiet conversation in the branches

of the water oak. I am working now
with light and spirit, I breathe in the light
and serve as instrument to a moving, subtle
love beyond myself. I hear the clatter

of the chimes, the pattern that the water
makes when a leaf hits it. Her soft, white body
reminds me of a star, I'm looking at Venus

in the morning and wanting to taste the skin
that she reveals. Sitting still, I remember
the contour of her singing in her clothes.

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