Rain bird –
carry words
like bags
you keep
under your eyes
–
weight is light-
–
air feathering
itself in rain,
pressed
to mist
upon your face,
–
knowledge
is colorless
–
if not your own,
–
a chiasmus
longer than scope,
–
the swallow of the horizon
is the dip of the universe
behind your eye
–
oh petrichor cosmos
–
stumble, choke,
carry forth
–
mind from earth.
–
sound scent the rain,
upon each leaf cascade
–
unwrap infinite, this gift
like the promise bearing breath
from the ellipsis of dream
–
as I still the song of the rain bird
to let it live
