library poem 01: cz

[prismaticbleed]

so where are you now?

red curtains, exit stage left,
sunlight patiently waiting for its cue
that bleary reaching up-and-out
to cast it streaming brilliant across checkered soft
and blue embraced in blood.

where am i now?

blinking like an airplane in the stellated night,
lost amongst the diamond-shatter dust of heaven
its only identity that flickering ruby
held at its very heart.

silence.

there are cars outside, and birds,
neighbors laughing two stories down
and church bells in the air.

all i can hear is your voice.

the tide has rolled out though.
i'm standing where there was an ocean moments before
but as the golden chords of arlecchino burst forth from my phone
they only highlight the starkly burnished land beneath my feet
and the only memory of water here
is in the snow caught fragile in my hair
the aching blood singing seashells in my ears

and your voice,
a million miles away.