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I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum
birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder
a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce!
armed with lightning’s rip and slit
the scythe of claw and tooth finds its prey
knifing sunset’s skin  desecrating cranberry rays
it’s red demise fills my see-through-eyes 
Sun’s canvas shredded
I fall through tattered pages of watercolor-layers
accumulating dust and blood of the slayed day

I arrive not a predator but a peace-maker
my raiment fleece of lamb not mane of beast

I come to rest 
a drop of rain who clings to a windowpane
… translucence transforms me
inside a room I see myself with my possession-pain  
a swaddle-bundle I rock to soothe
pain held against my breast like a newborn
crying to be fed
nurtured with lemon-squeezed tears
and sticky sick-sweet milk of revenge

my fingertips trace my descent down the glass
I pray not to let the dark moon be my doom

I know myself like turmoil-seas know the shore
let the salt-sea’s seethe meet still grains of sand
abrasions cleanse one of crime and grime
      
I know myself like the night knows the morn
let the night be a knight 
and capture rapture with light-swords of dawn

I know myself 
the games I played with leather fringe and lace
his Marlboro face    the Moët taste
the magnet attraction pulled my limbs apart

I am a tear liberated from the storm
free to fall   free to fall   oh I had to fall so far to be free
fall from heights where lust-wishes glisten
slip the stardust handcuffs
fall from nimbus  find the limbus of self and soul
find a way to rise above black seams
and wanton scenes of my scream-dreams

translucence transforms me

I let go of the windowpane 
and die to myself casting off pleasure of pain and sin 
I fall to silent-sister soil  inhaled to be exhaled
on dizzy wind-whimsy-warmth of first light
I fall a new drop of dew wet with sky light
as I bear Love's cross like a white lotus bears its muddy birth
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