There are moments I land
And the sweep of the sand
Sets me twitching to sink again
To that chore-pummeled haze
Where I measure the days
By the height of the blue vervain
And the slant of the rain.
Though it’s never quite the same
Once you
Pierce through
And view
The reason that you came.
Listen to your breath. Mind
The slow still constant waxing divide.
Leave the body behind.
There are time when I’m still
And relinquish the will
To maintain my solidity.
When the weight of my bones
Is sufficient alone
To dissolve all the enmity.
So simple to see.
Much more difficult to be.
Once you
Pierce through…
Though impales me like arrows.
Little Lamb,
In the time before you came through
Dust trails and omens we aimlessly swam.
Little Lamb,
Little five-pointed star shooting
Prismatically o’er the Earth
All the shades in your little command.
I was cruel.
I got angry. I grew savage as a bear.
I didn’t care.
That you were new.
You were rough. You were stumbling.
You were you
And you were there.
Little Lamb,
With your back built to bear
Every burden inherited over again.
Little Lamb,
I can’t know how that feels
Though I too have been stolen
Away by soft longings for beauty and then…
I was cruel…
Little Lamb,
Where I once hid the impulse towards darkness
You planted a bulb in the sand.
Little Lamb,
In that aridly streaked plot
So barren and bleak not
Another would think to relay such demands.
You were true.
You were blind to all deceptions to all plans.
You showed your hand.
Could you approve
Of a long past due attempt to understand?
I think you can.
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