blue flame

I hold the blue flame in my open hand

A summer’s promise indomitably blooms

The balanced pebbles shiver as you take your seat

Nobody strike the table—now let us begin

Dark Luna casts her ambivalent gaze and fog

Deepens on the windows in a gathering dawn

I hold the blue flame in my open hand

Daring to believe the reach, the move, the risk, the light

Is all of it, and nothing, and all of it again

Billowing ghost of unformed meaning, speak

We are all children, heavily at play

We are the mornings after nights in living dream




june 2023