Inside, outside

I am the hunger of the sea to caress the shore

the thirst of the land to taste the sea

the longing of the sky to kiss its reflection,

I am infinite rhythms of ocean

infinitely unknowable

I am the hunger to taste the flavors of my aliveness

I am the thirst to reach through these words and touch you

fill you with wonder…

words are my heart’s adornment

they loop and lace light and color into a dance that filters my world into handfuls

of thoughts

and sensations rushing

and lingering

on the tongue

in the breath

in the heart…

pierced by memory’s hooks

we bleed

inner into outer

outer into inner

me into you

you into me…

morning hovers

inside

outside

slide through my eyes

your eyes

our hearts know no division…

my reflection in the window

I am inside

outside

suspended in last nights dream

falling through eons

the universe floats

in waves of time and space

without a tether

we are always home…

poems fill you

burn your shadows

distill love’s echoes

into light

your heart knows the words

no one can utter

and it’s all right…

it’s all right…

tiny white

shell on the sidewalk

a child’s treasure

an old woman

stoops…