I am myself taking root.
\nI rise from the water
\nand enter the city as a fog.
\nI rise from the stone
\nand my heart shines like a sapphire.
\nThere is nothing written about me anywhere.
\nI have descended to the bottom
\nof the sea,
\namong the moon glow of fragile faces,
\nand no one believes me.
\nI am taking root in the heart\u2019s surrender.
\nI am not for sale.
\nI walk by counters of grapes
\ntaken from the sun,
\nof pears pulled from the tree,
\nof lobsters blinded by the air,
\nand I feel their souls die in me,
\nand I put them back where they belong.<\/p>\n
I am the new voice of forever.
\nThought becoming wind,
\nhope a branch of lilac air,
\nfootsteps,
\nshadows of a journey,
\ndisembodied light,
\nsyntax woven into butterflies,
\nsleep forever vigilant.
\nEffect without a cause,
\nbecause I am alive,
\nalive because I have none.
\nA lily drifting on a pool of light,
\na dream waking up,
\nstars calling to each other in the sky,
\ngoing off and never leaving.<\/p>\n
It is what I am,
\na root finding soil everywhere,
\nin pots of nothing.
\nA voice telling a child how to sleep,
\nand then to dream,
\nand always loved,
\nno price for love.
\nAnd everywhere,
\na piece of me,
\ntaking root,
\nconnecting distant doors,
\nuntil there is one great face.
\nOne still flower
\nwhich no one sees,
\npetal by petal unfolding,
\ntaking root and becoming me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am myself taking root. I rise from the water and enter the city as a fog. I rise from the stone and my heart…<\/p>\n