Sunday, September 3, 2017

Kit Kelen #610 - holding, held



610
holding, held

it’s time to hold you
there’s time to

when I’m past sleep
or it’s run out

light made wakeful
or the fuse gone down

when all birds sing to start
your bellows still
a beat of heart

some flower
tended in the day
is all the colours there

sleep’s all for kisses caught
and set to dream

it’s time has left us
this next day
we didn’t need to ask

before the mail, the news
to-do, no caveats, conditions

among the gods
this much to wonder –
how you could be here

you’ve still got your other world
I’m over the date line

and am I dreamt
to lie beside
all worldly, other
green with
?

see the sun through windows licking
while you’re still away

there’s time because I’m here
but I won’t tug – no war

here as between seasons
like the world my father gave
my mother gave

how I was held
once nothing when
I first began on days

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