Sunday, December 20, 2009

At St Marks

If I were to say that love trans-figured your faces,
It would be nothing but the truth.
That love wove itself around you a shelter
That love whispered the leaves and made the sun shine
That love itself has soaked into the very marrow of your bones
It would be nothing but the truth.

I will tell now that love weighed you,
Found all the cracks and filled them in.
That you feared love, but love did not fear you.

And at St Marks, in the crook of the river, under the watchful eye of the hills,
You found your courage and surrendered to it.

Friday, December 04, 2009

West Coast Beach

My happiness is sunning herself on the stones
Her clothes are too big
Her bones stick out awkwardly
She is picking up the pieces of her life
On here, another over there.
She is laying them on the table, piecing them together

She picks up the stones and puts them on her skin
Letting the warmth seep in.