The palisades of warm weather
rise like a flock of sheep
from the high forest range,
the shepherds are frail wisps
of breath clambering down
the crags of disheveled clouds.
Rivers shimmer their diamond
sheathes in the new sun,
I don't see their blades.
Birds roost on the eaves
of grassy knolls & stones peep
with a sleepy eye; who knows
what lies above?
The irreverent world feels
young & ready again, round
still with the tender fat
of long rain's sludge.
There's a fragile forgetting
in the sky & a febrile
remembering in the earth.
It is as a dream.
This new earth is fragrant
with fresh designs, contours
ripe with water, sketches
of water faint in the fey sky,
the sun is almost white.
The air is thick with that want
—fornication & the body odour
of desire. This is a time
of tactile wonder,
the immersion of bone in rock,
flesh with soil, hair in trees,
laughter in water. It is you
baptized with life still dewy,
milk white; you want to wake up
today & touch your fingers
to your lips, my lips,
any soft thing. & I promise,
on the doorstep, the hibiscus
pouts her red glossy lips
as she dresses before the green
mirror of am old puddle,
waiting for the dance you once
promised. You must wake up.
Image gotten from Twitter. I can't find the artist now.
I can never level with your pens and the depths of your spirituality. To me, it seems like what drives you to turn to pen has also grounded you in the complexity of your emotions whatever they look or feel like.
I detach myself from them then go ahead and envy those who take on their reflections with such boldness. Thank you for sharing your work... It inspires the poet in me to stop fearing her growth.
This is both beautiful and powerful.
Tez, where will I put all I'm carrying if not in this poem? Thank you for these words. Thank you.
Leave it all here. Let your poetic shrines shape it or carve it in whichever form and watch it heal you as it heals us.
Karibu.
Amin
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