Planets and Poems

still,
on this earth -

lover's moon
gazing down
whispering her reassurances
in beams of light and
arcing and ebbing ocean tides

you stand inside me,
the millisecond before
"let there be..."
intoned a world into motion

a sky before a sky

the God before God

towns that blaze eternal
from inner light
beg to call you their home

like some palm branch
making love to a passing breeze.

it's you,
ya know

it's ALL you.

my sweet,

there's a game we can't
seem to stop playing

that always
leaves us

knee-deep

in planets

and poems.