Your sentences aren’t mine to finish, still

Morning dapples on your river where I rise

It’s stained glass in my sanctuary

Holy light and honey, she runs home from here

I empty coffee cans of faded flowers

Send them back to soil of a ground that only grows

The wildflowers will wrestle the woods to find me

No matter how many trees I climb to hide

Autumn breathes in the barnwood swing

Swims in your lungs back and forth like a lullaby

A slow sway in silence sailed from the sky

I sat my secrets in the weeds and asked them how to pray

Always answering in tangles of blushing blooms

Soft stars and seeds of someday soon

Find me forgetting and fragile

Touching toes with something slow and sacred

Pretty pieces clayed from pinecones and promises,

I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.

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