Monday, October 26, 2009

Breath, for a girl

It is vivid, it breathes

can be at once visible, tangible

or floating in evanescent air

alive in silence but living in sound

can be the bite of raw wind

that breathes, never blows

awake and alive, it breathes through your eyes

the cold of cognition

withers, whips, rises from dirt

is vitreous and imperfect

falls (does not break), awake and alive

skyward, forward and on

excited – what was that?

I heard it, did you?

it spoke, in a whisper?

it spoke in a dream

I hear it, do you?

it cannot be far –

(perhaps, in time

but the distance is close)

it breathes through your eyes

do you hear it too?

it is awake and alive

it is love, and for you.

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