Mother’s Hearth

Dying Embers, A Stettin, Flickr

After we have done deals,

you bring you, here’s me
and we will call it ours
as we gather again,
like firewood in Mother’s hearth.

And, as our rough edges kiss,
sparking hot conversations
about ghosts of moons gone,
the fruit is a fire that cooks

our spirit for the moons to come.

And, after we have downed meals,
wood depart, fire gasps for breath,
but with puffed cheeks, we blow kisses
from faraway lands
to keep embers breathing

till you bring you, and I me,
as we gather again,
like firewood in Mother’s hearth.