Light’s out

eyes closed

I’m counting constellations

touching solar systems

Sun rise

slow glow

earth twirls through

daily blaze & we

are lost in minutae.

Touch hands

lock hearts

burn neural pathways

hum a melody

familiar in its rise ‘n fall

without within, connection

spins

Dusk falls

night hovers

the life we thought we

held floats away

lost on winter stream

torrent fast ‘n teaming.

Kestrel stretches wings

mile high spins: sky open, empty

contrails fading into light

Swallow’s murmurate on

telegraph wire counting

fledglings checking route maps;

heading south to sunshine.

We the ones they leave

behind, shorter nights

earth twirls unending.

Rain came while I slept

tidal wave down drain pipe

silencing the dawn chorus.

Light has morphed from

gold to grey another summer

runs from us.

We are old / new: old/ new:

changeable like the weather

low pressure presses, hearts  quake.

Trees moan & sway

their constant flow

makes my head ache,

& I’ve slept a million lives

through endless seas;

searched for you as you

have me, walked a lifetime

in these shoes

with nothing solid

underneath

yet gravity binds us.

Listen to the wind blow

it rocks the beams bends

the trees so crispy leaves

butterfly to the ground.

Winter comes in August

equinoctial rain slash

sending the horses to shiver

in hedgerow.

Night brings no rest, no rest:

constant dream of days gone by

& people dead float across the

screen of retina, unrelenting.

You ask for crumbs

I bring you buttered bread

thick with honey from a distant

land where the bees know

only sunshine.