Meeting

Meeting

I blend under the covers

to drift by the songbird

though I never reach the songbird

with my mind or my eyes.

I can only melt with the mirror, a strange being

blessed by freedom

but not by much else.

And here I hover – outshone by the beautiful sound

I cannot capture, replanted in a foreign soil,

a death warrant, a challenge of rapture. The angels

have called me. The dark breath has answered me.

It is not enough, under the covers, listening, crushed

by the morning light – my pattern unraveled as though,

for now, I am only shadow.

It is not enough to remember you,

to have touched the miracle and for a moment, to have

perfect belief. Because there is chaos in wake of this beauty,

there is a fall on jagged rigid ground after the swim through

synchronicity, there is the dead bird, broken by

heartbreak, held in my hands, nothing

but hollow bones, and a picture I owned

but lost, of you and me, in black and white,

aged in love, so long ago.

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First published in “Eunoia Review” June 2015

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