letting go of mind and body out of this dichotomy a world of flowers blooming forever is in the choosing to see the water’s beauty from inside our hidden towers thousands of broken flowers threatening to reveal the truth that we are returning to the burning days spent singing in old cathedrals streaking naked in the woods dreaming upright streams of cottonwood treetop dancers stand upon the crashing boughs deepen their stance and make flashing elbows your feathers are wet as yesterday’s snow is melting how many years till the pelting of the sun with arrows and stones commences to cover up our coats of fur, tooth, breath and bone with armor your faith is cheap so you repeat the weakness of the elderberry your syrup stealthily dripping, stripping, ripping a wealthy dreamer hungry for the sun-dried lobotomies of love the watershed depends on nothing yet it remains ugly and unsteady and ready to drop you without warning love is deeper than still water it is all about alabaster and descending melodies the viola serves his daughter’s laughter in symphony’s ancient slumber projecting this imperfect world as a boy masters his box of toys stepping out into the abyss like gargoyles on the corners of rooftops i stop and wonder how we plundered so much of the universe despite the treasures that were never uncovered did we misplace our souls in the bargain in stolen mansions deep within the forest stallions cast shadows on straw covered blankets asleep in thyme’s meditation i deliver the delicate feathers of the mother to swarms of stormy eyed children drifting in meadows forests of wildflowers matching our emotional temperament again we separate the wheat and the chaff the oat and the staff of ancient Syria stood tall and bowed before all the youthful interpreters foregoing is ambitions cursed gesture