I’d like to write about the sunglaring through the sky, burning it’s way through the trees and
the corners of the buildings and the bodies, oh lo the bodies.
I’d like to dance say
once or twice around the world and into the arms
of the one person I’ve loved forever it seems
yesterday today and quite possibly even
tomorrow. I’d do a jig
special for them, made quiet.
I’d like to write for everyone the certain glance I give the
broken windows I see, the power lines that
garble the sky, the sound of all the creatures
hoarding in my backyard
all the moments to behold before
we tear it down
we tear
we tear
and I’ll sacrifice myself for it
for you on
altars made plain by today.
I’d like to write and explain this
outwards, turned inside out and made
possible, potential. I’d like to
thank you for something
something external and voiceless
nameless? no, it’s named
I just can’t shake it off my hands.
Breathe in now. Breathe in the day
the lives you eat the lives you live the
small tiny moments where the sky becomes the ground
falling around your head and you feel
like there’s no bottom to catch
the fish that has taken your heart.
Breathe in the daily measures
the bread the water the
love the joy the love!
Breathe. I’d like to write you something.
CAN’T….FIX…>FORMATTING….ARGHARGHAR!
I like this on first read, but like most poetry it kind of sails over my head. Maybe someday I’ll take the time to let it sink in.