Somewhere between the silent beads of sweat shivering along my wearily wanting pulse

And the cool cooing miracle of a mourning dove rousing these days at dawn

I heard the switching swish of your footfalls finding their place in a promise

Knew the orbit of your most dazzling dreams and how they hung about your Sunday slumber like a mobile of tomorrows to be

The first time something broke, I begged worlds to turn their twirl and place pieces back together

The last time something broke, I learned that some things are never meant to be whole

I saw your light howling in a sea of healing halves before I was ready to believe

But, a wise woman in the woods once said to save some space in your soul for what you least expect to find

So now, what shall we call a beginning that's always been before?

The absolute entirety of a revolving resolution?

Our name is the slow-grown embrace of paper birch bodies

Their boughs ripe with rich nectar of never-ending stories finally found

These wonder-warm windows are a wild welcome home.

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