I shove longings into crevices
and they grow flowers.
I reach for clouds
and snowflakes fall.
Wind gushes
over the brim of goblets.
Stories open
their beginnings and ends
in beautiful pauses.
I am made whole,
allowing night
to begin and end,
and dawn to return
with yellow hands.
The book The House of the World has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is now available on Amazon.