To the Color of Your Mouth
Poem
Published in
1 min readMar 30, 2020
my lake
how black sky
churns us
soots us
birds flee
wind hot / gone
rain beats
to the color of your mouth
widens to eat your water
battens the horizon
to your breast
tarnished clouds
unleash
caught together
we scream
while we live
o
release
…still
after
thunder and graves
float with me
don’t mind the detritus
browning in sun
cracked teeth descending
on our peace
jealous eyes bitter
no
let us flow
sediment-deep
I in you
you in me
where we fill
watered sky
with our love
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Adapted from my poem published in Hashtag The Horizon: an anthology edited by Scott Christopher Beebe