from steam
unfold
onto this
rain soaked void
elegies of spring
of blossom
the dusk infused shrapnel
perfuming the dew
and every permission of skin
of your favorite mile
to the sea
where the mayflies now waltz
over roiling leagues
of nettle and jewelweed
of the forests
at last
shedding amber
at the final toll of a snowdrop
where winds give chase
to themselves
and the spent light
recounts to you its origins
in constellations of anemones
and for a moment
we were driftwood
linnen wrapped
and heaving
a wilderness
making a last stand
against its corporeal frame
against
returning to the dream.
(and there I went
down the rivers
of time
cut across the palms
of the hands
of the children
of Man
home
to an ocean of touch.)
For Jojo and Shamala.

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