night blue plastic truck we sing Saturn’s rings to pieces in the  shower I was whole let me tell you of a time I drank the world until I lost hold of the ground until I became a wintered kite with no tether and all the  weather broke us down can’t you

I come from the slaughterhouse. From the boar-tainted blood stained two car garage  where a skinned pig   hangs by bound hooves her squeals still echoing down the valley.  But I wasn’t stained by blood.  My white flesh remained pure  and I built friendships on oaths   written with crow feather quills 

Invisible strings tie us together holding strangers friends, lovers, mothers— oh, to wonder. We all wobble tumble, twist, and fall dance, shake, bend, and break until dawn calls. Laugh and sing, child come forth witness walk this Earth your presence, yours to keep.

As the sun sets beams of sun kiss  every molecule of earth  as light fades into the afterglow Slow, soft whispers  are carried by the breeze  the sky is sprayed   with majestic shades of red and orange  I watch the sunset here by the river   being on the seventh cloud

when that boy fell  haloed and serene  snow-down feathers enflamed  in quiet radiance  he stretched his arms and whirled and kissed  the sun  and though his nape prickled  anticipated  the plunge  his bare bronze shoulders  his arching back  drip  cascades of golden wax  for now he is  gloriously alive  falling