In That Moment I Fell

 

I am unwound
unaligned unright tonight
fishing in a catcher's clothes adorned
at day the sheep
at night the wolf
god grants wisdom
we spit it back into his
silly face
your moon bright
illuminate my midnight minute's pause
interrupted by the thesaurus
by the southern kamikaze
peeking window woman's eye
Sanskrit of her blood
on ice skates on wine
the russet flag
I peel myself away only to be pulled back
into the magnet
the orb of your magic
a radiant summer seduction
pontoons of blue hot lightening
bruises of purple thunder
I wilt
thinking of the ocean
bound to the threshold thrown
operatic arms akimbo
bone still quiet on the trail
that dark northern wood
ferns and witching whipping in between
ancestral sentinels
the tallest trees
the ocean
the long black road
your hard face finally asleep in my lap
never have I seen you rest

and that has made all the difference.

TA