scriptures in the sky

by salparadise

Posted to Action Poetry on 2001-03-12 07:02:00

iÂ’m reading your message to me,
delivered in vertical rainbows
inverted forests
on a palette of pale clouds

words that transcend voice
puncture meaning
throttle the throat of thinking
with crusted hands

your message is loud and clear

pages of a feather book
float free in random flight
drift meekly on all fours
pass over canyons like fine silk
like scriptures in the sky

i am used to this kind of treatment.

invisible ripped air currents
twist around my skull
circle my flesh and blood
like a carrion flock
in case I donÂ’t emerge

i have received the message
hold it in my arms like a baby,
talk to it like a child
ablaze with wizard flame
and all there is to know
right there in perfect eyes
piercing the crooked sky.