Stay there and don’t say a word

Ethereally, eternally I watch you lift the floor boards

Hush and hide

Some strange melody tickles at the back of my throat

A prayer or a promise or what is anything at all

The bigness of opening

So peculiar in its allure

She tumbles down the hillside

Brambles and brush thorns biting her legs

I see you sometimes there

Your arms outstretched and those hickory hazel eyes

I see you sometimes there

Beg you to let me through

To break open the humid haze between us

Let me sink into some kind of certainty

What are you so afraid of, child?

Light cannot be held or fractured

You are a mirror

Look up and light the sky

There is nothing here to lose.