Agate

Agate

All is not lost

Fortuitous glint

of continuous light

Rising song of Saturn’s daughter

Well of shores

Capture of sun

The sun saves itself in you

Beginning of fascination…

And translucent questions

Why do you love me?

Answers split and curl

Banded wisps of smoke—

Your answers are a collection of questions

What is the shapeless want?

It shifts like a flame

Now, our only hour?

You precede and endure

Why are we haunted?

The past is all that we know

Slant through which we see our past

Its blue burning still with shards of orange,

Time disappears in you

What lies on the other side of time?

The other side is inside

Voice within voices

Shadow made of smaller shadows

Many eyes shining out of your iris

Light—continues

Forever?

I see through your windows

within windows

to windows

There is truth

Where?

The ruined waves of the sky are shattered,

The ruins of the sky are shattered waves,

The ruins of the sky shatter in waves

Stacking up—subduction

Palace upon palace

Crystal tectonic crushing

Syllables of stone

Or syllogism?

God is love

Your face

Rinsed in colors

Ruby light in your tide pools

Black moss in your fissures

Lavender shouts of sun

across your liquid landscapes

Raining shared joy

Wandering through each other's dreams

Finding and being found

One out of the multitudes

Sunk under so many

Waiting—

For a fortuitous glint

Of continuous light