Us

"We are each other no matter how much we are not"

For Vere :)

Us

We are 
both clay and palm
Shaped by
and shaping each other
Endlessly incomplete
and completing
Saving the empty parts
for the piece of the puzzle
we each fill in one another
Equations resolve
themselves as they do
We are each other
no matter how much
we are not

You’ve scaled 
this spine on the map
your whole life 
Your blood 
running centuries red 
along the ridge
The only borders,
tectonic
East to West
Your spine, the Rockies
Set as the earth they
lie upon
You are delivered to a moment
To a golden cage equally
abundant and cruel

I circled myself into
eyes outside my head
And followed an impulse
bounding for the redolence
of a billion oblivions
overlapping into one point
Into a season I’ve never known
Into the beauty and the fury
Into you, somehow 

This time, this place
Right where we are found
Foreign to any goddess
In the accident of peace
Our talk is an infinite Sunday
Verging on edges
Apocalypses still forming
A crescendo for the crescent
With the anticipation
of a caving ridge
The rubble settled 
in the sand called tomorrow

But right now,
just right now,
it is shining 
as a mirror does
if only we let it