I almost ruined it
Listening to the sunrise today
Needing so badly to step back and blink
The step back -the blink
That removes the pain
For I am not the patriot clang
The whimsical splashing shore
Or the sizzling Southwest wind
Welcoming in
The sunrise smile
First there was fever
Now comes the uncertainty
Next purified gold
Amidst the aches
I heard birds
Jubilate
So frantic in song
To provoke my best
And ask me to stretch
My mind so to hear
That we and that they
Are not the usual suspects
I’ll not lose the dream
I learned there are two nices
I learned I’m naive
I marvel
Will you always look little to me
Loving recklessly
Moving with abandon
Dancing the Worm
Without care of the bruises
Both eyes big and thinking
What good will the wily do you
I wonder
This primal laughter
This quiet cry
Comes
From the peaceful place
That knows you know me
Whether you know it
Is my mystery
Thank you
Faith again
In Ourselves and the thing guiding this Us
You’ll find the rock
At the center of me
Spinning still
Faith in my hands in your irreverent hair
The earnestness with which you count
Each act of my spine
Hands together applauding
At last faith
Oh demure firework,
glimmer that way; just be you
oh silver bullet.
Let cold concrete soothe you
The shiny travel guides
With talk of warm-blooded adventure
Are only pictures and paper
I speak for mermaids
Who tend to the deep and still
Suffer the shallow
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