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Open/Close: “Why I Waited”

I blew east nestled among a soft tangle of shared breaths
Cooing

I set down where the earth seemed to lean me into the sea
A burly father wearied by the swaddled clump
A mother’s rocking arms
Echoes of their hush between

I set down there upon sleeping feet
Stumbling into your garden
Into your golden wash
Into your dream

And found my sleeping heart could cast no shadows in your light

Warmed
I plied clumsy fingers
Carving tiny trees from memory
Blindly shaping sight into river ripples and alpine vistas

Soon my waking eyes filtered a drowsy morning from your noon
The shine that fed the crop I couldn’t see to

I started wide-eyed amid dusk-gilded grain
Found my beloved brother nodding
Sated in the grass
The work already done

For this unexpected mercy
For hopes transparent to the sun
For love that can be shared
I flew west to a silent orison

And speak only now
Having waited for your laurels to bear spring green

Jordan Baylon (4/4/2012)