silent verse
an impossible darkness

silenced white horses


a heartbeat inconceivably there

in fallow ground

riddled with scars, memory.


asphyxia : rivers

knowing what lies across those distant shores

the current



that carries within it

a new voice

shadowed in promises
 


shadows of

deepened longing,
a hunger



that is not hunger but 

an echo; knowledge gained from

other echoes that
 


resound within

these walls that do not

refuse to contain
 


the violent

utterances, sharp points against

the details of
 


their bodies that carve

words into words,

aching with the residual
 


sounds of

a shared silence-

their bodies save
 


all that has been lost

to the tidal

pulls; a tangential force
 


that finds the center of

all that is sacred

all that hinges at the margin

desires caught between

breath and

a moment; ecstatic --
 


the desert air

bears witness to

our separateness and how
 


that chasm

and this surface

mend scars


to amend our

separate sins; faults which

no longer
 


exist in this time

and no longer

hold us how they use to