Winter's kimono

winter's kimono

the hem, a snow gale, brushing

over frozen fields

Like dying

It had been like dying,

like falling,

like the sigh of a spirit,

when you were born into the flesh.

You wanted to return to that place

where life was tender & existed like that forever.

Warm hands sweep under you.

You sleep.

When you wake,

you no longer remember.

Shattered heart

The shattered pieces of my heart I will carry

Until they become like a constellation within

lighting my path forward

and I see beauty

in every face,

every flower,

every tree,

every rock,

every step

on this broken, sacred earth