The Ontology of Us
~for i.r.s.
1. Coral
Full moon, a night breeze
brushes the water’s skin
into pools of light.
Tonight the deep tides turn;
the reefs call in the elders.
Bones akin to budded branches,
dance over ancestors’
rendered remains:
sand against our toes, sand:
where we dance.
2. Amethyst
Shadows carress the field,
bent stalks repose
against the passing wind.
Along the hem of flowers
you walk. A curl of your hair
catches on a stem
of blossoms
and for one boundless moment
earth and sky are one.
3. Between
amorphous nebulous shapeless unformed undefined
becoming growing emerging inclining transforming
beautiful graceful congruous worthy
a sum of parts
a luminous field
fecund waters
a jump a leap a jive a strut a whirl
