for Carrie Jo
i notice
as the color trellis grows
sprouts to cosmic depths
to the star nursery where your new self
is bursting out
how the rainbow bridge
from your bones, your luminous
skin, the chemo skin from childhood
an alabaster peace
how the smile that came
after we bathed you in gardenias and roses
spread all the way across your face
has become a rainbow to the stars
imagine the twinklepower
to plunge back down to us here
in this snowlit quiet grove
rose petals scatter and Aphrodite’s dove
which sat on the branch throughout
is winging now, through darkness
back to glistening starlight
your body wrapped in grandma’s quilt
has become a sacred site
may huckleberry blossom every year
from this sacred ground
at night, i feel the incandescent, luminescent
strength of final light beaconing out to your new star
from your bones, your voice, your movement through space:
you have birthed a permanent portalway of peace
Scooter,
ReplyDeleteThe tenderness evoked in me through your words and seeing and seeing into expressed here brought me to tears today, through these lines especially:
...your luminous
skin, the chemo skin from childhood
an alabaster peace
how the smile that came
after we bathed you in gardenias and roses
spread all the way across your face
and these, too:
in this snowlit quiet grove
rose petals scatter and Aphrodite’s dove
Thank you.
"imagine the twinklepower"
ReplyDeletesending you incandescence, your own, back to you, multiplied through "a permanent portalway of peace."