Born nameless stormed helpless
Floating with driftwood evading debris
i shelter in underground passages
with muffled dreams in vacant eyes
frozen eyelashes: iron railings
Your stare, a stain: spitshine on the stone-ledge of almost
untouched water, a pure surface of unblemished skin
And your words fall down the well: flat pebbles
blurred by ripples, soon forgotten--
Your face, tapering off with daylight, eludes me
i miss your sparseness
Almost unsure i'm emerging to see this
unbroken vision of hollow sky and blank sea
i swerve off course and break my bones
as the sun
tumbles down
on deserted dunes
my face topples
down to earth
and crumples with sand ripples
so i forget
the garbled letters of elusion the rumpled sheets of desertion
driftwords floating among debris
I awake to find your eye like a pearl in an eggshell, pregnant with rain
& your voice hidden in tree leaves
A shiver a glance spark off the day
Songs well up into the eyes of the sea
swerve over ridges
unimpeded
as ear buds blossom
your face unfolds forests
unfloods a valley of bent trees
turns on the sun
and lights up a world of almost
unblemished flesh
to outlast the waste
