my roots
aflush with sky
my bones
unwrapped
and from the soil they hold within
an autumn dawns
from
my
fingers
I let
slip
a cloud
one
in a bouquet of storms
and it falls
to the ceiling
determined
to shatter.
this is my body
somewhere in its twenties’
rehabilitating
bedrock
into rain
etching into every blunted edge
of my plasticized symmetry:
“This is where I could love you next.”
“this is a touch I could fall into.”
“This is what becoming looks like,
when we start to love outside the lines.”
“This is me,
finally
choosing life.”
(and thus the birds do drift
like poppy seeds
across the great white acres.
as the gales of change
are singing
come and meet me in the dark.)

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