Literature
no thoughts left
falling down, dancing
around
fists full of fallen stars.
out loud or silently our thoughts are
music, warm and silvery. we were
laying on the banks of drying rivers, strumming our legs in cool
everlasting blue
richer than horizons.
if i ever drift under the surface or into sleep, let me go
let me go
until my body crashes into sands or rocks or black
velvet walls.
until lights come up over the reaches of trees as
the sun goes farther away,
farther away
from the spinning earth and
stand-still waters.
until the sun disappears and dips its
face into the ocean to cool.
the waves forgo the moon, barely blinking.
i'm well aware