Poemflesh

your goodbye is a promise of lightning in the last angel's hand*


I cannot cut away
this love
at such a bright temperture
clean and hard as it is
as we are

perhaps the clasp will loosen in time
grow rusty and forlorn
a lost canoe in the vast sea
courting the undertow

but for now love ~
I shall dip my face
once more
without the favor of surfacing
breathless in need
as we both are ...


Cynthia



*movement song, audre lorde

always blue for you ~

para tu

blue
for you
as the
sky is
never
fading
scripting
clouds of
poems
above
bodies of water
falling asleep
inside
your love
rising on your
warm shore
moist
i want to
be blue in
your love as
the sky
never fading
her blue
always
waiting
in love with
the slow
descent into
your arms
kisses like
lightning
clear to my toes
your voice
a memory deep
i was unaware
of until my
heart lept
to your music
blue as the sky
never fading
rising at night
to fall again
beside you
and i vow to
be still
silent
surrending
to all you are
and want
me to be
always
blue
and
in love
until the
blue sky
fades away ...



cynthia