Archive for July, 2011
X marks the spot
X marks the spot, on childhood’s pirate charts,
we sought for Silver’s silver in the sands.
Love from below, unearthed in two new hearts,
brought buried treasures up into our hands.
Right here’s the x, and written just like this,
it’s where we went and planted our first kiss,
drawn from that source, penned out across our page
and rooted to the spot of our green age.
Come lose your shoes and join me in the water,
I came up here to you a son not daughter
in other words, I burst, a naked flame,
still shedding still the sparkles, still the same.
This stubborn scratch records yet one more thing
and to your cross this flower that I bring
will lift new bud above with every spring.
Its cutting lines and rhythms we still sing.
