O Beloved

O my beloved ...have I drawn in you ...my luminous inestimable atmospheres have I in black and white droplets... instilled for you that ...it is balmy ...devouring and dear have I seized you with careful crystal threads bound you tight with soluble thoughts that salt and pepper the pages in your given name have I held your hand in running cold ever streams let our hand heat merging ...deny arctic dominion have we fingered wet rocks side by side our arms extended from our wrists in unison such that you have seen it? O my beloved have I in my song origins set in you a tablet of ascendancy ...the pale radiance of rapture the darkened obscurity of heart-break ...exhaustion's collapse O my beloved have I ever owned your supple maw ...your bowing being? ...your sequestered self? and as for this...weight of life is light and dense as sun on water flirts and moon caresses firmness of bush and brook and moth and tree ....strikes stars! to rip the soul a-wide to all things O how the flowers explode forth in your name! the bees to firmament alight! the grasses grow deep seed green... even sea foam frothy perceiving your breath... it's perfume to bring to my wanting lips I am as the bark on the tree... cavernous russet... fragile and burly brown I command channels ways of spun glass... in orange ...red ...yellow and gold Chihuly...am I... O beloved I am and the sea is my quintessence ...and you are a shell of perfect pearl resting in my pink palm holding the stratosphere in yours (written long ago...edited today)