Sunday, December 12, 2010

A long winter's day

A Sunday night
       weather-beaten hoodie, my cotton nest
       please cover me up, so that I may rest
Warm-soup-belly
      Glass of bourbon, not too much
      ice so hot it burns to touch
Melancholy walks
      dilly-dallying, so as not to end so soon
      a gorgeous request, just to save some room?
December sunset
      Parking lot star-gazing and an evening meal
      Fresh cut balsam; carts with crazy wheels
Warmth
       Breath upon skin; a lingering stare
       Breath, an icy plume held present in the cold, thin air
Discovering
       Nothing is really something after all...
       and then back to nothing; rise and fall
Salt
       the purest white of truth--coarse, healing, real
       in the wound; a lover's solitary appeal
Waking moments of a girl, age thirty
      "let the golden days begin...."
      when I might find that which I actually intend
To be, To withhold, To make light
      who I am, what I have, when I ache
      music listens to me and never hesitates
And, at long last, I am found on the longest winter's day
     feeding with my soul's bread so that water-foul can live
     their receiving this love...I have so much left to give

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