here trees breathe mountains
and trees climb echoes and slopes of a dreamer in awe in me
and I know nothing but my becoming the listener and the reader of warm skin and open blue
there is no language for a person walking within the idea of an edge or kiss or touch or confusion a poem that understands not the embrace of none, one, you, the sand where the original thirst belongs
and from thirst comes much chant
here trees breath my needy poem by the mouth of the dreamer
and from dreamer to dreamer the spiral of chant brings fruit to the mouth
here the arch between air and fire happens
and a poem of glowing skin grows younger than my morning lips
here fruits chase trees as if a chant looks for the entire body of none, one, you
a poem of skin carries you alone to the naked trunk and naked breasts of this beginning
or this bodily idea of crossing the senses where and when the whole secrecy of seeing the sun transforms the surface of time into a new truth
the chant unfolds without my fear of sphinx
because here sunbeams raise my mountain and drive my path in the mountain or soul
as if africa was the flesh still burning from that first lightening through the clay