Genesis 25: In Writing

At the moment of ingathering
I gather to you

my woman
my wife

possessive of belonging
possessing and possessed together

as other possessions
spread outwards
to distant beginnings
and  rising suns

you and I
curl into each other

At last I say yours
you becomes mine
and the exiled, expelled, separated
seen and unseen
are gathered back
and called by name

Genesis: Chapter 25

Multiplicity

yet specificity
to at last be the only

Genesis 24: In Writing

After the walking
and the wandering
the endless road
and distant hills
the pieces sloughed
and lost
trickled and dried
within the cracked footprints
there is a way back to the doorway
to return from outside in
into the warmth of your mother arms
murmuring living water


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To Sarah:

Go back in time
start over
fix this time
the primal mistake
I hear you in your listless silence
See you in your gaping tent

This time I asked
you acquiesced and followed
rising in your new-moon glow
full of endings
and beginnings

Genesis: Chapter 24

After loss,
return
Go home,
if not fully home


Find comfort for what was taken

Genesis 23: In Writing

Listen! I say
Please hear me!

in this gaping silence
cessation of your voice
you curled in a closed ear
pink rimmed and lovely
as a swirled shell
rushing waters within
brittle armor without

I see you
discover your face
as
my dead,
my absence
my loss

Genesis: Chapter 23

Death
birth
death


We discover belonging
in the gaping loss
communication in loneliness
Listen, please!