Speaking In Tongues

winter-leaf

I try to find a heaven in my dreams,
some cloudy place where you are. 

How can it still be morning, when
I have been out here for so long?   

I am in a house I have come back to. 
Something is missing or broken. 

Looking everywhere, looking everywhere,
I am caught in a thickness of fear.

I make a nest in my hands of torn
cloth, and a bird settles into it. 

Snow falls from a bright sky, as if the moon
were shedding ashes of its own crisp light.

I want to talk with you one more time. 
If there was bitterness, it’s gone now.

3 responses to “Speaking In Tongues”

  1. Beautiful poem – beautiful picture! Nice!

  2. Lovely, simply lovely.

  3. “I am caught in a thickness of fear.”
    SB, I like this line.

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