love poem 1. i am delirious w joy on a saturday night day
of 181,000 distractions that i stay home
anyway, tend to home a
garden of love wet sinking spongy i am fast
& home spun

so to sit down on quiet winter’s night
that i get to

blue lightening storm come through
spill to dark moon last of winter
how is that
for just
under the sun
i made it
back to my
self i always do

…i always did

this climb harder, farther. way

harder. water flows
strong blue now clear
this is when it changes all by mountains

deep w crystal and round w fish and prairies full
of mists and sun and deep green yellow
ponds and frogs and babies who drink
open handed, mud
on the face
loblolly water full of vitamin c
and sunshine

why not what was was
what’s done was whats yet
is now n
will be not, to what is
and still! to come

native grasses could fix
so much in this place

the waters rise
and

rise i beat check
run home to where the blood of my umbilicus
my moms was
cut
ran out the drain
the brine shit waters

central east coast/ o

my birth chesapeake

i beat check, beat the brain
run back on my backwards breath breathe
again n again

take pain, heart ache, see it increase
watch it rise in the blood ache run moons
and collectively fall i fall with us we fall inside
each other, all us i wish i knew this in the we of
us more, this awe

i pray for us. i bend down i touch palms flat
to earth to boost for us. to pound i pound i

pound palms feet flat for us,

i pound feet palm

flat found

i pound. punch up for us, us up punch

us punch for us
up

we all find, found sun
shine oh spring,
that it comes

the loblolly prayers for us
the loblolly ppl &
wind storms, jabs of blank
space blacks of eyes
back of lightening
rain

prayers for us
prayers for us
for all the pain

beat check

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