You Lay There Returned

You lay there returned
between the wings of your breathing
graced by the mystery of feeling
before you awaken thought
do our hands draw themselves
or are they drawn by another
how do we give so much
in isolation
in these simple ways
in strings of radiance
with so little nourishment

poem by L.B. Temuco
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Have We Defeated History

Have we defeated history, my love
Before a moment there is nothing
not even us
but songs that we sing
until we slept
we dance beneath mountains
at the point of creation
we bathe
in the Sacred Headwaters
of the soul
we feel
the rain of limitless clouds
we are
the inviolate law of our Dreaming
we taste the
divine leaf of immortality
on our lips
in the dust of our bones
water became vapour
we crystallize love, our salvation

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I Am Water

Ah xxxxx
there is a warm place
in my body
it is water
an ocean entering tributaries
that have carried silver fish
and you love, love, love
love, the silver of these fish
that carry the sun on their backs
they have travelled long distances
beneath my skin
bodies flapping like open limbs
satisfied

Ah xxxxx
I cannot flow
other than as water
this is my love, water
water,
spreading over you

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