I want to open the vessel

Take in the light

Reign it with a Scribe's hands

And say things unsaid

Through wakening light,

I watch the Stellars Jay,

Alight a branch,

I stoke the fire…

I watch four small hands

Throwing stones

Feet nestled in seaweed beds.

Fists clenched…

Unravel yourself

In pieces to me

Till your sweetness

Lays upon my tongue…

My beautiful children.

Please know that when I’m not seeing you,

It’s because I’ve lost sight of myself.

And when I'm not hearing you…

Fear has no place

In a heart that loves

It may try to make a nest

of tightly woven rigid thoughts…