What Purple Back Lit Song Is This
What purple back- lit song is this?
What Larkin Swift upon the white tossed cloud and light?
What yellow dawn awash in corn sweetness?
………………….. are your lips upon mine
And still I turn away
….more human than human
The softest glow of silvered night is quick within
The dampness of dewed forest dirt wafts and wanders in my nostrils
caresses my cheeks
and crystal-ed light …the ever crystal light that falls
for the “only” me
from the gray heather-ed sky
between trees and lifting…lilting leaves
....greener than it is possible for them to be
Over and over ………………….to pick oneself up after ALL the falls
Pain of body, bone and the everlasting melancholy
Our bones…my bones…the bones of it
A cavern of shell… structure of dust…gift of God…searing wonder of one’s own
to have to leave on a journey so unknowable it merges moments
…….in our flaxen seas
single seconds evolve into massive planets with Quazarian landscapes
Gladiator galaxies swirling in Titan Universes
Implode again
becoming a single blooming fuchsia flower
…in which we are inexplicably, acutely, astoundingly
alive and alone again in our singular perfection
Copyright © Ingrid Showalter Swift | Year Posted 2014
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