The dark room forgets the stars and venus, I fished in her moons baited the page empty to be more mysterious
fading into the ocean in splashes of blue, I saw you
In spring I planted tomatoes too close to the jalapeños and they married
Blessed was that marriage and fruitful, every bite was salsa in my mouth
Dissolving spice leaves its prints like time clapping upwards a granite hill
on the other side, a bridge between dusk and dawn rocks the wind has flung open the doors
The sheets cannot be retrieved lifting high into the summer air curling out over the barren fields
blackbirds glide into view against the darkening clouds they toss themselves among the fading landscape of the sky like pepper, or my dark dusty curtains flapping in the cross breeze falling to pieces, quietly
The cat ran away It's been months since I opened a book or felt the sun
tracks across the sky
leaving its fire behind hiding its face in the dark somewhere between the stars