4.07.2021

a figured stillness where no nightmares slide

After a long wet season the rain’s let up. 
The list my life was on was critical; 
reproach soaked it and infected my ears. 
I hid, deaf and blind, my skin my hospital, 
in the inoperable ache of fear. 
 
Today the rain stops. I can hear! Trees drip. 
The spatter & whisper as I walk their 
breathing avenue. The wind has died back; 
edge-catching light elaborates the air. 
 
From the road car-tunes rush close then slacken. 
I climb the green hill. There at last I reach 
a figured stillness where no nightmares slide. 
 
Green leaves turn inside out to grow. They breach 
their barriers. I come, eyes wide, outside. 
 

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