On the Height Above the Depths
There
the tight air binds,
breath extracted
with a wince.
There
the blue sky bleeds
into the indistinct
horizon,
its props kicked out,
stretched down
by its own weight.
There
I float above
the wind worn crag,
the suck of tide on sand,
no anchor,
all sails trimmed.
Who lies among the faded bones
strewn across your depths?
Who has come to you,
stealing through the night
to claim your love?
To be held in your sullen arms,
so deep the moon itself cannot penetrate,
so deep
your ardent eternal sigh cannot be heard.
What secrets are lying there?
Sifting in the murky bottom,
shifting at the speed of glaciers
in the long slow currents,
in the dark distorting press of
that tremendous weight,
the crush of your embrace.
Those who would thrive;
those who would search here
must be strong,
must carry their own light,
like your other buried denizens—
to wander the sounding whale road
stretched for leagues and leagues
across the seething broad pathed earth.
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