the copper sea (for One Shoot Sunday)
the sun sets copper
on the sea swarming over
desert longings
lapping our dreams
on our footprints
a heat rises on ghosts
of foam cresting
for the stars
the sand sinks
death our sun desires
drained on our footprints
unquenched
no shadows lurk
here the light fractures
the pining twilight
leaves splinters
on the sand
the copper sea turns in
a petulant phantom
on our footprints
unwashed silted
Posted for One Shoot Sunday at One Stop Poetry, a community of poets and artists who love their art and sustain each other.
Window Frame (One Shot Wednesday)
She peers again. Light birthed
in snow has blossomed wings on
branches, an evening suspended on a hand.
The mist curls fingers at her, drawing her–
she hears magic bedded in whispers, magic
that melts on footfalls then trails a sigh, seeps
into thoughts, waking dormant ghosts.
She holds on, clutches on—time
has framed her waiting: even snow birds
scattered on the gravel have turned into leaves,
the light, a wash neither rain-lit nor
breeze-hushed, folding on itself. Frost
has coated the window frame where
she gazes wondering if her eyes
not the stars belong to the night—
her world illumined by the absence
of light, nourished in waiting
for the snow in his wake. Waiting
she wonders if absent stars not
the snow flakes on this window frame
have deluded him
to search for other skies.
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