A fence is nothing
To a bird
But a perch
To view the world.
I am still enchanted
by the light you brought to me.
I listen through your ears--
through your eyes I see.
Stark, lean tendrils dance
Between shadowy footsteps
The brush of nature
How eagerly we push our wise, used up year into his waiting grave!
How we celebrate the dumb, blinking child with such mirth!
But in truth they live on together--
The old man brings up the child;
Hand in hand, unbroken chain.
Halo vapor dance
Eyelashes burnt with brightness
Sing with radiance
If you wake early enough,
the unspoiled child universe
will play before you.
And when the wind warms
to favor you,
retreat.
If you remain awake long enough,
the midnight paramour
will dance within your blood.
And when the light dissolves
to carry you home,
howl.
Memory catches
what fingers lose,
Thought arrests
Decay.
Edge of night
Edge of storm
Edge of wind
Edge of flight.
See through blueblackness
Edges of moonlit outlines
Now sleep calls your name
Tight lightning pinches
Eyes pulled back by thick, grey nerves
The storm rages through
