claybreak
Twisted and tangled and tied up in knots,
Growing less and less separable,
As two trees planted just close enough to knot and gnarl and conjoin with time.
I lay to rest like smoke in spring showers,
Coiling and sinking ever slowly with imagined weight;
Serpentine and deliberate,
As loveladen hands kneading flesh like warm clay.
Awaiting and aflamed,
Eager as a candle with wicks on either end.
Sometimes we smile like a hall of mirrors turned backwards,
Other times we face forward,
In fascimile of a fearsome yawning infinity,
Knowing the stars betwixt are more anchor than barrier.
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what a fresh metaphor for the distance between two people “As two trees planted just close enough to knot and gnarl and conjoin with time”
i agree with Gabby
what a wonderful poem:
sound image and meaning fired like a serpent vessel that holds the two together
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Twisted and tangled and tied up in knots,
Growing less and less separable,
and
I lay to rest like smoke in spring showers,
Coiling and sinking ever slowly with imagined weight;