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.