there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
where the unfinished
is not unending
and the unrequitedness
is not infinite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
healing is inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(1.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
suddenly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the sun skips
to write of love
in ripples
on the still oceans
of auburn eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and in winter there is gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(2.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
roots of light
cleave through the gray
and ring the snowdrops<\/p>\n\n\n\n
whose loving call to war
thaws the ghosts
from amber hearts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so they may drum again
unbruised<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in search of them
the source of warmth
by which we kept
torpor parted from death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(3.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a robin
sits
resting on your gravestone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and heaven remembers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that you were once
more than just a stretchmark on a tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that in fact
at one time
you were everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(4.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the roses unfold
once more at night
to bloom
howling under a full moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and compose a lullaby
of temperate fragrance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to tuck in the dreamers
beneath weighted blankets
of sweetened
pink night mists<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and as though
conducted by time
everything becomes an instrument
in the orchestra of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(5.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a stray shepherd
guides his flock of thunder
to graze the fields of black<\/p>\n\n\n\n
forever locked
in their timid dance
with shore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and relives
unshared lifetimes
in the mellow silence
that parts
the
hiccupping
of
sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n
until the whole world chokes
on the inherent emptiness of everything<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on the wishbone
he once broke<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on a stranger’s wildest smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(6.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
scrapbooked wildflowers
tattoo themselves onto blank pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
because spring
cannot help
but bleed fictions of itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like Eve
and I<\/p>\n\n\n\n
just dreams
wrung from mother’s tear ducts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
something warm for lonely cheeks<\/p>\n\n\n\n
just colors
dancing on closed eyelids<\/p>\n\n\n\n
noiselessly fleeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like sorrow’s sun kissed whispers
smothered by the dusk pierced reeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(7.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sometimes people
will become rivers
within you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and you may cast your heart
into these waters<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but still they flow
indifferent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and you may cast
the bones
of they who loved them once
into their icy grasp<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but still they flow
disinterested and undisturbed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
because some things
are not meant
to be overcome<\/p>\n\n\n\n
some things
are simply meant
to be endured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(8.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
if all we ever really were
was just a field of dandelions
repeating itself
across all lost corners
of this heavenly dirt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am glad
that even though
I got so tangled up
in all that God forgot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you so adamantly refused
to be unlearned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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