Shadowboxing 2

for Sabrtooth's On Feathers

You can find the poem in its initial iteration here: https://www.sabrtoothtigermagazine.com/oracles-almanac .

Below is an experiment.

heavy comfort:

the sky was singing

close a door

to wrap yourself

in yourself

open wounds

in the water, gushing

fluttering paper wings

if i could taste

feathered solace

holding onto

warm light falls

down your back

transmuted into

the testimony of

somewhere now

the living air

torn open

absence lullaby

reminiscing embrace

(strange artifice)

tear out just to find

striking selfsame

a gasping joy

gather fallen leaves

and bring it to you

i am holding on.