WHEN LOVE PASSED OVER-- ------ AND I

 I reach across the stars
 flesh out and write inside those scars
Words froze inside the tiny capture
released as a ripple flees its prison
my mind
the field of ploughed bone
pasted face in lump and tear

Skin raised as mornings flag
printed ease
upon the collected label
they lie in graveyard symmetry
the nights of broken heated worth
fragile seeds
dragged from my hearts disease
a longing to be cool in the earth's cover

Love left in a crystal glance

yet stay I must

each step printed in sand laid

in Egypt's stone mystery

the living mummies

wrapped in sorrow-soaked shadow

beneath invisible fountain

a Roman spear

fresh from the body

and holy echo

Love

I drag the knife dipped in  yesterdays ink

scrape the word into mountain curve

on edges that golden fields burn

Love

soft this kiss

this kiss which through times eternal grasp

breaks from tombs embrace

I worship at the dark river Styx

where I sail on sinking pledge

forever washed in limb and soul

onto this shore

punished as foretold

love

I wrote in a days dream

love

love

love

again