Breaking

To break your silence with a spoon

To cut your voice with my words

To touch your flame with my tongue

Is to break you.

Say a word and time will fall,

Disappear.

Translate my gestures

In a broken language

Or build a shelter, and

Be my home

And I will make you.

Let the fire withdraw

Like waves from your eyes

Beyond this empty shore

The tides rise and fall, like

Words lost inside words.

Let me gather all your scattered shells

And I will take you.

Storm

I wake as a poem

Lost in your pages

Once again, in your tired arms

In your cloudy eyes

In your restless wind.

Lost, in your body poetry

I rest within your eyes

And listen to your hair sing.

Through the puzzle

Of the rising sun

I carry your silence

Through my tides

Waiting for the storm to pass.