like a dragon your breath lingers on my face i inhale sweet scents of cinnamon and turmeric the sweat of the days labor the ecstasy of savoring our good natures beauty resides in chambers of the mind i decline accepting favors from neighbors with grudges and axes to grind and sharpen my own knives against the silver blades of time in snowfall the descent of vision is secondary to the suspension of gravity and love has risen like reverse lightning hungering for its return to the starry eyed sorcerers selected from the mantle of antler wearing shamans the nativity is blind as a blonde from Wisconsin sonorous dulcimers depart for the auto-tune convention sing your limits like you spring for chicken dinners impossible symphonies, silent epiphanies facsimiles of days spent wading through carpool lanes with tiny elephants dressed in swimming trunks