Photo Copyright my dear childhood friend @Becky Gwynn Stroud
A bruise of sky threatened snowfall
Crows threatened murder
Laughter threatened joy
Your body arched threatening intimacy
And your love threatened loneliness
The clouds bulged indulging
time it’s breasts
Flickering sunlight to night
A crown of breath
Across an ocean of thought
And a necklace of stars
A thin washing line
Against death
Eyes sealed
On the ointment of a tear
of lazy soil
You curl like a fox
Awaiting a white blanket
I pulled a stone from my chest
You brushed the day from your coat
