A pulp of heart, lungs, and memory, reshaped as love.
The shape water takes when it remembers itself.
A pulp of heart, lungs, and memory, reshaped as love.
I only know He goes down with me and I never worry that He’ll drown.
The depths that held me clean and close now suckle at my feet.
The tension leaves my body. I fold into His warmth.
The cold water slides down my body, chilling me from the outside, teaching me I’m a furnace within.
Today I am animal-holy.
I am all of me—refractions of light joined, the center of the wheel, healing every spoke of my soul.
Clouds, their condensation water streaking from the sky, dripping ecstatic lullabies across the grace of nature and my face.
My feet crescendo with the rain.
Slow as ice melts, I travel down. Relieved to touch solid ground again after so long in the clouds.