I saw a meteor scream across the dark,
a chemical green flash above the park.
Breathless, I sought another--just one more?--
no, that was it--all quiet as before.
Thus left alone, with nothing but the smack
of waves necking with rocks behind my back,
I sank into the cool, slow-breathing grass
and shut my eyes to the star-strewn morass.
*Oh, your name is a raft,
and my mind is a lake,
and all the night I sailed that craft,
meteors trailing in my wake.*
Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM UTC
I saw a meteor scream across the dark,
a chemical green flash above the park.
Breathless, I sought another--just one more?--
no, that was it--all quiet as before.
Thus left alone, with nothing but the smack
of waves necking with rocks behind my back,
I sank into the cool, slow-breathing grass
and shut my eyes to the star-strewn morass.
*Oh, your name is a raft,
and my mind is a lake,
and all the night I sailed that craft,
meteors trailing in my wake.*