Day of the Peaceful World

Laura



Laura is earnest
erring on the side of caution
night
a brittle filament
from under which
she crawls.
Dexter carves the ocean
starves salt
from the walls
of their forgotten country home.
Alice is ignition
lighting fires around the yard.
Together smoke emerges
from a total fire ban.





Jordan



Jordon crossing
the night in infinite blue
a battlefield of expression

Jordan in shadow
we move closer
to the promise of flight
the gritty orange halo
of a street light
charts a path to your door
a third love
rigid
arrives neatly
wrapped in a Halloween joke
conducts a love poem for a lapis tree.
We have mountains and under them
the air spirals
dark & magick.


* * *


For years you bathed
fully clothed
your back to the North
your legs a plain sail
the ocean’s neat divide
pristine between us

the water shed
made buoyant by your plain white legs
purple toes
on rested taps
an alliance
between river basins.