just like a stone
bleaching skinlike granules
taking sunlike lightnesses
branching friends
to touch hands
and quivver
where
our fingers
contact and more
light comes
through

i love you like this and
with the soft sweet laughter
of babies blinded by the guarding
tone of thier mothers'heads
blocking the hard hail
from hitting thier
angelcake hearts


i love you like this
with no time to stop
and wonder why
all the breaths you take
are like toucan feathers
and you
are soaring over
the canopy that grows
in my unattended mind
and caws in the tunnel
of my ears
that I thought were
there to recieve you
and only you

but It was actually
my own breath
echoing off the walls
of my soul
my own flight
strecthing prefumed lines
banding the sky with
infinate laughter
my own clear well
draw
this love from
my own clear well
to drink
this love from

i love you like this
and in the the losses that come
the greif in releasing each
seed in my heart sprouting
a thousand ripe olives
again and again
i pluck them readily
opening my mouth
a bit more each time
we draw another
lesson
nearer


it is in this way that i love you
and it is to this that i have
given my life:

purple skies at sunset
washing rains that heal all wounds
and the petals of morning
that wrap around my smile
when i
see
your face

it is just like this
that i fly