Poem: Desert Cliff Prayer

 

Desert Cliff Prayer

 

i want you to

blanket me with fossils,

unfurl the museum

of the unheard.

 

i need you

 

to be one with me in dust

effaced by the gone,

cloaked in the unremembered,

 

to hug my worries

down under a sabertooth’s fang,

or the chalky wisps

of a primordial shell.

 

make it rough for me to cry

under parched waterfalls of gone skin;

embarrass me as i bathe in spent death

and squandered heartbeats.

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This poem was originally published in Lingerpost in 2012.  I am  trying to consolidate my work, old and new, on this blog.  It is too hard to juggle everything.  I might put my unpublished novel up here, chapter by chapter.