Trinity

if for a moment you can breathe, steady
your spinning head
hold this solitary thought:

a moment might drop by and
say hi
say hi back.

the world is old and heavy
resilient
in its image we might be made.

you know what this cost. you paid.
you earned what it cost.
this is how this is supposed to work.

we scratch around bugwise on its
skin. lush forest and oceansweat salt skin.
everyone wants to be part of something larger

and we are. all of us, we are.
in this moment, and there only ever was
this one, we are.

the world is so rich and vast and true
and you are so integral
a part of it.

broken, us, skittering off thrown across the ice
towards our respective indefinite destinations
the great beautiful dark. what sounds carry

in the one moment. steady breath.
the only real love poem
I ever wrote.