Fire Brand

brambles brothers disguise
come underneath these frozen
thorns. let your foot down, your heart it beats.
I cant escape these frost bitten thunders.
My echoing silouhette will not die into the ground
for she reminds me so so often of your love.

feathers in my hair
tangled in the great green bite of birch bedded down.

Help me... hear
Help me... see

press these green twigs into my tongue and write your words
brand the bones of my chest ...yours
cross your heart over mine with full residence !

dance your bones around me here
lay down my fears and melt them into the ice these deserted foes.
rise along the strands of flowing air ..crackling with your inhabitation.
Follow thy hand
your fire brand
into the hills and wrap these thorns like leather around my wrists
in rememberance.

you braid tall grasses into my hair
with the smoke of the clouds and I honor you with my life.
placed into my hand thy stone of love.

Dear brother...dear
fire of life
my heart cannot contain..
not a thing but these sparks.
the imploding din inside my head
the crushing hum
my soul lives alight.
and I will run aflamed with joy zig zag across the plain you have created
me dust to dust

You Beautiful Vine

you beautiful vine
strangely performing in unstable vessels.
breaking over us with winds to level these false structures.
you break my heart and come please do it again so that I might
feel... your love restoring me.
you with astonishment instilled in once yet children we spoke and died
to it... bring round again in us.
you who flood me with tears
sorrow with sweet honey
satisfied with brokeness
clusters in the soil.
I am here
with Him
finality my love
His hands around my wrists
crush these fragrant wishes
atop my head

Words Dont Flow

words dont flow
not anymore
a new way
a holding back way
bound up like a fount I used to know.
I wont rest till you meet me in the flowers
of this bed.
struggle in me
child , daughter little sister
shes mine and shes yours
so take a hold.
my hands look like my face as I turn them toward you
words dont flow
not a sense of them will I make
but blatantly confess this beautiful mess
and pain in me.
Daddy , Father wont you be
such a strange refrain.

I love you
with the weeping rocking that tick tocks upon the
ribs containing my soul.
for you I will go.
So I sit with you untied
you know me
and Im knowing you
and if its the pain that brings me
then all the more let it be
draw me please.
Jesus, blatant lover of my soul
I miss you
my words dont flow
they just come out
and I really dont care
as you untie me
unravel me from the knots.
your the sensation radiating my skin
the breathless hope
the shaking prayer
the tears that rejoice over you...
I always know Im home.
words dont flow
dear Lord
so let them be red
and not simply painted to diguise my hopes.
Im your love
broken in your arms
and thats where I always want to be.
Im here again
daily...daily... hourly I'll submit it.
no words make sense to me
hiding in their shadows of colors wont suffice
I love you Lord
my words dont flow
no not anymore
but the love that pours from my heart
is yours
and this little girl shes afraid
shes afraid
so Daddy im here
change me