Circ-ly

come play with me among the rocks among the scattered glass

come play with me

among the rocks

among the scattered glass

under you and under me

(looking for joyful-seriousness)

::

  closer than skin to me

closer than my skin,

  time  and breath and beat and bone,

        blood and skinny sin.

   twice the man made in my heart,

      reign—sit not stand,

        loose my soul, my strength, my mind

           and yes, my skinny sin sin.

flatten follow, estranged, enlong and

   s  t  r  e  t  c  h     o     u     t     all my limbs

  beat.     dry.     soak.     still.     instead.     instead.

instance.

     well love,

  swell so full

wide and wandering,

            like a desert scene

        an ocean spread any distance

                        distance,

covering. 

               black and brawny,

whole

  and hidden,

                    white noble rich.

  so rich when you

         mumble me,

         mutter me,

         think me,

         wink me,

         mention me like a friend:

don’t slow, stop, go or halt, tumble down

   below.

drawn line, all squiggles, high and low,

don’t slow, stop, go or think; tumble

           down below.

::

and like you do

(and you always do)

catch me in the inbetween

i with you and you with me

in wordlessness and meaning

a verity, a readjusting

making men out of machinery

turning head

turning heart

turning feet