Arrival

Arrival

The dream spiraled

breathing in the darkness  

hidden at the edge of the world

she unfolded in the stillness of my shadow

and wandered out beyond my memory 

she came for me 

through ancient echoes

reaching for belonging

down the river of my heart 

voices in my veins 

my hands 

my hips 

my ancestors infinite lives in mine 

I walked through graveyards 

to find my life 

a temple where 

my body 

and the dead 

remember 

each body abandoned

each body betrayed 

each body held 

each body so beautiful the moon lowered herself 

into our skin 

in prayer we stare

into the shaking jaws of shame 

tell me

            where does it hurt?

hold love’s portal wide

the current sweeping freedom in 

in the beginning, the quiver, the crack

the soil says now, now, now

the moon

blows gently in each broken bone

a body blessed and born 

this darkness bears no orphans 

all her children walk in light 

in their eternal meeting we emerge 

the unbroken thread

of life’s unceasing Yes

pulsing my heart awake 

tell me 

whose moon

                       am I

                        are you?