Beyond

What binds me

to this earth

is blood n bone

& dirt

a fox’s cry

the swallow’s

flight

that look of love

deep in your eye:

it keeps me

from beyond,

the place I hide

in deepest sleep

a longing to return

to mute subliminal

peace.

You ask me

to believe

I’d like to be

the blue of sea

a murmur in

the dark green

leaves

a mote of dust

a sweet spring

breeze

all of that is

lost to me, in

sup eternal

longing.