offering

trees grow

love runs through roots

tumbling down craggy slopes

echoed through footfall         chasing love

honest, tattered, nurturing, beholden
                                                                       love

web wearing its cape of dew

reminder of connections ~

our joints, our deals,

our hugs and nods

evaluating your quality of exchange:

healing wish in each handshake

pure light emanating from smile

filtering down through slacks or skirts or short shorts

the fallout of love

drumming the earth

threshing the fields

cultivating wildflowers

feeding the trees

bricks layed

while love pats the mortar
pouring over plans, punching the till

while love rattles keys in pocket

most evil deeds of the tortured soul

love languishing under rounds and rounds

of splintering

love feeds the trees

it courses through earth

it is primal protection animals uphold

who snaps the roots?

interrupts the stream?

poisons the bed?

what are acts of love

and acts of lack?

look at the trees
love spills from their summer branches
they are the earths arms

offering

(full moon poem, july 11-12, 2014)