yell
Posted to Poetry and Politics
by panta rhei on 2002-06-29 07:58:00
when darkness
seeps through the opening
in the dream-mortared wall
that rises in your night
when words
well out of fissured earth
and swollen babel-roar
yell... oh yell when
you lie in earth's deepest marrow
when all your drums begin to beat and
silence ignites your fever
yell
as you walk through this fire and ash
as you lie naked
in warm desert sand
in a void built by lizards
yell
as dunes whirl free
and the wandered
images absolve you
as you wake
breathing
peace sifting through
your
hands
