in almost breaths

and i pull strands from your forehead

kissing it

and think of peaceful peach waves of light

interrupting

inside i feel destroyed waiting to be rebuilt

like a ruin

in afternoon light

and

someplace nearby the whispers of figures

of us

shadowed with new tools

hover

and i love you

so much

yes

yes, you are sleeping now

and

god would be watching you if he existed or not

for

all that light

Bright as Stars

Bright as Stars

bright stars, geographical and located

inserted on oldish paper wrecked chalklike

letters and indentations

on a globe

with just outlines for land

and

black for oceans

THIS is some kind of freedom

and

how anyone would see it

on their way in

for the first time

right now

she is in the yard with the dog, the dog

has so many nicknames that one for every day

is more than one week

and a face

like grover from morning tv so sweet

out in the night shadows under palms

i can hear them laughing

both

in the cool pitch of mash dark shade

afternoon fade

her voice is a perfect pitch of lilting stemmed

somethings

pink and without end

bright as stars

we are

as we fall fast fast fast

asleep

Like This, Us

Like This, Us

“us”

like this

us

just like this

hey

did you know

i cast out

this rod

so vast

so clean

it broke my name

over this water crest

and

sea-spray colored

if the sun heated it

until it went

tangerine

and

your smile

is that same color

it breaks my name

from the deep

releases me

from

bad checks

no sleep

any storm

spinning

rung out

till it is not a mole

on a mound

round a little creek

you

make

it

all

easy

love

or

you make it float

not-sinking

now

when i say yours

it is like the sky

whip-cracked a snap

like a cloud-split

or

everything with lungs

started laughing

even us

even us

even me

for

i have not felt this peace

before

like this love is

like this

us

Lucky

Lucky

right here in the frozen clip

of this city

and everything before and after it

i sit

nothing but a tremendous yours

lucky

right here in the blundering white

of shift clouds

and cotton mountains of ice breath

i walk

nothing but a tremendous yours

charmed

over there in the sun-drenched west

my last home

where calm is stirred by gusts of smiles

i’m loved

nothing but a gigantic heart

shines

over there in your arms fit for a nap

born so kind

your heart sails above us all, your soul

perfect in that it feels everything

down here

so lucky i am to know you

lucky

we are to know your name

charmed

to be yours, i am

this world is

so yours

so so yours

lucky