I can feel your autumn from

Waves and echoes

Too far in the distance

creeping, burrowing

In gorgeous lines of melodies

Along my skin

Too close for comfort,

Mesmerizing and rich, dark honey

Like the clang of childhood windchimes

Like the pull of the moon tide

You come to carry me

Away.

Along the months like

Falling leaves, like old lovers

We have walked so tall and proud

But within us lies that same quivering

Each fall that sweeps our breaths

Along the ever stretching ground

We are both waiting, it seems,

For different things

But in the night we become

The same shadows

That unfurl like sleepy vines

Of longing, of creation

Or maybe

The destruction of that distance

That called to us before.

In my dreams last night

I touched your face,

I found the violet sky laid bare

In those beautiful, music-roughened

Hands, Fountain

of eternal youth.