That Embrace Mentioned

June 18, 2010

That embrace mentioned,
the deep purple smile of a May iris,
you,
joy,
unwinding streetlight flicker,
silence and then the sound
of a dog dragging its chain
at high gallop.

It’s finally free,
Final’s freedom from whimpering,
begging God’s first beginning
to pause eternal.

That chain’s once chromed links,
now sullen and sandblasted
by concrete meditation,

Put through the hands
of a four legged dancer…

Night-sparks to mark
where they rattled and blunt-bumped
when meeting with spirits crisscrossing,
getting used to the sound of nothing
when the solid world leans to fall,
finally chews through to sever
the thick tree holding its heart’s all.