Smooth

[Guest guest]

Smooth like flowing pearls,

Oh,

How you have wrestled these words from my tongue,

How you have taken my love and found a temple of myself

 

I listen for Echoes in Ambrosian chants

In Memoriam

When saints rested like sleeping giants

Glorious inside this deeper life of me,

I feast upon visions

Curled like infants inside Sequoias,

For

Meadows are made green with living things.

Cricket chirps play hopscotch across time

And

Deserts dance to wind spirals, create dunes

And camel or horse hooves fly in silver and gold

Across sun, across moon, tantalizing

Orchids, flowing like gratitude in bodies bleeding,

Preaching to rainbows for gorillas of the mist,

Before I was lost,

 

How I willed oceans and joy to reclaim my fire,

My perfect melody.

With these two hands folded over my heart,

Throbbing in Sanctus Benedictus,

 

In Silent contemplation,

For my love,

My heart song,

Ashen on my funeral pyre,

Perhaps somewhere an elephant's memory.

 

 

 

 

Ana