Be

It is this thing that floats and dives and invisible, springs  from inside you like breath, like color and sweet sound to scrape against my shell to open cracks where you leak into me; This thing that flows as I taste the salt of you, kiss the light of your eyes, the tension of skin on skin as my fingers brush down your back; that place you are.

It is this place, wheeling open skyward, the ground and life below, sucking in all that is to be in that moment; nothing past, everything to come;  to grab at the mysteries of  nesting  birds and of odd garden rabbits, to blow open all that is, to feel it rush like cold water on parched skin;  to penetrate and nourish and grow, this thing beyond knowledge of you; your open self.

Oh, crack this stone that divides. Unhinge my soul from solid earth and show the path to flight; raise the darkness, call up the sunrise and melt the chill; your soft lips and mouth engage, the liquid quenches; black to grey and grey to white; sunlight is.

Run with me; let the grasses tickle our legs and the red clay stain our feet with life; sew up the hurt, unwrap and be again;  to find that place from paths uncertain, to know the warmth and light and tripping uncertainty, stumbling again into one another; to stay.

A universe wide, flowing out; that place, that thing that we are; the mess that comes as we prod , retreat and grow; that wonder beyond the pain we spill; the love that is.

The unexplored, the unreasoned; the place and thing to be; sew up the hurt, unwrap and be again.

About michaelstephendaigle

I am the author of the award-winning Frank Nagler Mystery series. "The Swamps of Jersey (2014); "A Game Called Dead" (2016) -- a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Author Contest; "The Weight of Living" (2017) -- “The Weight of Living” was awarded First Place for mysteries in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Award contest; Named A Notable 100 Book, Shelf Unbound 2018 Indie Book Awards; Named a Distinguished Favorite, 2018 Independent Press Awards. Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 Big NYC Book Contest. Named a Finalist in the 2019 Book Excellence Awards. Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards Named a Book Award Winner in 2021 by Maincraft Media Fiction Book Awards; The Red Hand (2019) a Distinguished Favorite in the 2019 Big NYC Book Contest Named Second Place winner for mysteries in the 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards Named a Notable 100 Book in the 2019 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2020 Independent Press Awards A Nominee in the 2020 TopShelf Book Awards Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards Dragony Rising (2022) First Place for Mysteries in the 2022 Royal Dragonyfly Book Awards; named a Notable 100 Indie Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards; A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Independent Press Awards. A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Big NYC Book Awards.
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