Frost shimmers

cold dazzles

 

these in-between

days: old year

 

fades to new.

 

Friends leave

carried on wings

 

of cosmic sunrise.

 

Planets blaze

a catchment

 

to the heavens,

 

we return to

the stars

 

imperfect

become

 

supernal:

conscious

 

snapped to

universal.

 

Hush now,

the tears are

 

for ourselves

left behind

 

still searching.

 

Mid-winter

rests at the

garden’s core

 

trees bare brackets

sky strait jacket

beige:

 

birds gorge

red berry

provender.

 

I met you

swathed in wool

flak jacket

 

thermal full- spirit

human bathed

in blood & bone.

 

Now I’m fire fighting

panic where the scars

that we both bear

 

turn into, too

heavy load.

 

 

 

 

Stuck between inside & out

there is no time of day

I walk behind your before

listen to the tinkling of the bells.

 

The Angel of the Moon

watches you sleep

perfection is a word

minted for you.

 

Stranger’s jostle

no attention to detail:

your detail is diminished

there is no up or down

 

I’ve turned from love

into the deep

unknown echo

of you.