to me: I

saw the world

begin to breathe

every wall pulsing

with my own saw hard

stone become diamond,

the earth, I saw

the sky

sun red and

felt the wind

and nothing else

I saw fast lines

stretching

color

and field

I heard

the purest

sounds, vulgar

and un-ending

(yet wanted to-feel-more than the wind

to laugh-at more than humanity, to

etch my names in the cliffs)

I

had a world of wonder

before me in every grain

of-all and didn’t dare

ask didn’t dare

look listen

to me

for then

I saw the love

of the world wrapped and

crushed (please let it not be true

what sin confined us here) I saw eyes

spinning in the bricks of building where

we live and didn’t think twice about it,

they were just staring there like

these are just words on a page>

begging you to listen to

what I saying: I saw

the world begin and ripped

myself from its beautiful

silver folds and in the tear

saw

a stead beating

that scared

the wind

out of

me

 

`june 14, 2012