is the sea not mad?
or has summer boiled us whole?
the breeze
has dripped salt on my lips
and I have turned wild
your salt on my lips
will you take me to the cedar grove?
I was a prisoner in the garden
milking black honey from
shoots
planting my two-lips along dry basins
and longing for
tuberous truths
but then you, mud angel
trespassing on another’s dream
slipped your way into my Eden
and washed my fate clean
and at once my life remembered
the cyclic splash of bleak
Decembers
had suddenly seemed stranger
than the present
tense
as your grace as great as prophet
unto my impostor self
imparted
a planar truth no more contorted
then, this present
sense
and sorrow’s held no solace since