October 25, 2007

under a tree of cherries.

Holding you on a september night
the sweet dead smell of everything unwinds.
heavy cherries drip from their branches
breathing branches bow under the sky
The sky bends over everything like a holy dome.
and then all the space between the stars fills up with light.
and the stars too swollen to sing

Hum down to me.

1 comment:

Nathan said...

I really like this, I have all these feelings of the night sky being some sort of beautiful Zen answer and this poem almost feels like me and you having a conversation about that.