Without you

Gli Uffizi  

We are getting toward the edge again... and

Before I jump off into the landscape

Without you

Here’s what I’ve been readying for:

To take you apart, one layer at a time

Starting with what holds you in

-The parts I hardly know-

That keep the rest of you

From that inner, open field

-That I know even less-

In closing

I offer you

A straight shot to the vein

Of This

As time would have us

There is little breath left in this pose

The you to me is overgrown with speculation

The in between has more to offer than you ever did.

And this

In my imagination

In my labor

It could have been deep and light and centered and right

And it was