Stirred
published in Words Dance in 2007 by Verve Bath Press

More of a silky thing
stirred electric.
If you fix it it will wither and push back
into folds.
Dealing in daisies, from dirt but also strung up
in bridal bouquets,
the real path of light.
The dream
always swims in aerial styles
alive, alive
stuck in my homemade
Houdini proof
Chinese water torture chamber.
The embers of a two-day powerless
winter room,
scarred newspaper scraps,
that deep almost sweet lingering smell,
fire, fire,
taker and giver.
What picks the light back up to the stars?
I will take it.
Blinds pulled and you suddenly believe,
change time,
move space to build the path slow.
I will be thanking you forever.