Selected Poems

Nocturne

I want to enter your sleep
and lie with you 
like the moon, flooding you 
in bright geometry
of calm, cool space

I want to enter the architecture
of your womb 
where time is made
and your pulse 
beats back the black wave

I want to wake with you
and walk with you into the night
learn from you the cold 
black language of the night
looking up into star fields
feeling the long rhythm of light 
in your body 
your arms folded over me 
like wings

And when we are old and gone
I want to sail with you 
down the great river on its floes 
of melting ice
our white ship sinking under green
while I tell you the long 
quiet story of the night
and whisper into the seashell 
curve of your ear 
the calm echo of our sleep

(published in Blue Unicorn)