August 21, 2007
A Poem A Day, Poem #22
(This is essentially the same poem presented in two different forms. I couldn't decide which one to post, so I decided to post both of them.)
1.
once during someday dreams so dizzy that mazes fell
like mind-drops when my thoughts drew momentary
circles of those places i might live inside you and
these pictures have been hiding eternally across my
memory with mirrors of meanings that move these
immeasurable makeshift movies into being when you are
near
and those me-places that you embody are the muses of
some miraculous poems come undone long enough for me
to touch their myths with mindful hands
and those places cast a frosty moonlight that falls on her breath
like the cosmos were making snowdrops from the startling
kisses she spreads across my mouth laying lulls and lightly
hands over the stars to shut their bright eyes with shushsongs
descending into the softest sides of sleep that mostly children
know and other stars only shine to remember in dreams where
the sound of her most passionate kissbreaths lay me softly down
in this stuttering snow that falls like an angel shaking a child
from the stars,
descending into the dust of deeper countries, diving into
deliverance
2.
once during someday dreams so dizzy with mind-drops
that the heart stops to wonder: where are those places that
i live inside you?
do they cast a frosty moonlight that falls from your breath
like the cosmos were concocting snowdrops from the startling
kisses you slip over my mouth,
laying lulls and lightly
hands over the stars to shut their bright eyes with shushsongs
descending into the softer sides of sleep that mostly children
know and stars only shine to remember in dreams
are these the places where the sound of her most passionate
kissbreaths lay me softly down in this stuttering snow that
falls like an angel shaking a child from the stars,
descending into the dust of deeper countries,
diving into deliverance,
waiting to touch the you-places that live inside me