The sound of a single chickadee.
The silence afterwards.
The taste of salt.
The incompleteness of my love
for one in whom is my twisted angel,
wrestling me toward gentleness.
Looking at a meadow
longing for my body
to become the grass.
Prayers that nearly form
then move on like clouds.
The clouds.
Everything feeds the fire
of my hunger for you.
I warm myself
by the flames.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
—June 10, 2019