Blue irises
Swaying under
A floating crystal sky
Reflecting back to me as I lounge here
Next to the sun
Swimming in the pool
She’s so pretty
Dancing every impossible way
Through it’s depths
Mesmerizing my warm body
Into a deep trance
I find you everywhere
Gilding my Colorado twilight
Sparkling through the birchs
And oaks, thick with hawks
Burnished crows
Cloaking my neighborhood in
Brilliant, blinding night
Swimming like the sun
In my own belly
Wild, free, never out of tune
Always in rhythm
Always 3 steps ahead
Of my eyes
And mind
Time is a joke to you
And your laughter echos
In clouds streaked across my afternoons
The whole world is play dough
To your glimmering hands
You are every secret passage way
And every gowned girl with fire in her eyes
Beckoning me out of my cowardly
Proper
Hallways
Into an incisive
Knowing
And when I side step
Your hounding seduction
It lassos my neck with rage
Chokes me with grief
Freezes my shoulders
In an icy grip
The light goes out of the air itself
The darkness fills with blood
The trees are stolen
By a malevolent wind
The underworld
Pours into
My ears
Holiness is forgotten
Like a lost sock in the dust
Panicking, I blow trust
Faith
Repentance
Tears of sorrow
And lioness love
As hard as I can
Into my open chest
A flicker rises
Hope
Returns
Magic brushes the cobwebs
From my eyes
And tends to my gaunt and sunken
Ribs
Fills me with
Space
“build anew”
She whispers
Warm honey, on the driest of
Throats
Splitting mercy
Divine Mother
The Eye of the Needle 