Long rays of starlight
Overstretch...
Strain...fray...unravel...
Shredding fibers of distant suns
Too brittle to be remembered
Snap
In a dream,
And the strands of our breath braided together
Like ship cables
Come unlashed from cleats of flesh
At the opposite end of the expanse
Of hundreds of millions of years
Of light
These cables
No longer tie us to a slip of time
But an argosy of wandering love
That drifts off
Into the night sea,
Into restless dimensions
Where time and space drown and sailors
Such as we,
Overladen with treasure,
Cry our little deaths
And are reborn.
Knowing that, like seagull wings,
I cannot touch your hand
Or kiss your lips
Without dipping into the wind in spirals,
I look deep into your eyes, upward into them,
Into the foam of vision that crashes there upon the shore
Of your irides
And disintegrates into cloud wisps over the horizon
Of your eyelashes.
One last shivering smile and we sink,
Pulled down
By the starlight that plunges like anchors
Wrapped around our breath,
Wrestling in love and death.
Speechless before the deafness of the depths
That sounds in fathoms of unknowing,
Why speak now, my love?
Time cannot hear you, nor can the dead.
Just cry, cry inside
Waves of undulant mirrors, their profusion
Of faint moonbeams that slash like a sword
Across the warring surface
Where tragedies of love and fortune abound
And the oceans loosed on Earth
Are loosed in heaven.
This is all a fragment of eternity
Too vast for the eyes of mortals
And so, in this sea we drown and drown again.
