Back to Hearth

Fashioned like a particular life,

they say, beyond living

the process takes a turn;


and so occasionally, a sense

of stillness within motion brings

a folded surface forward.


What emerges differently than skin,

the bones, the body; then, naturally

the subtle act of forming void? Here,


the spirit splits apart, patterned as

the evening sky; so oil, water, smoke

and dust, morphs itself to light.


We leave some trace, a tremor, fixed

and spiked the body stays, stripped of

dream or violence,