coastline

the ebb and flow, the tide, pulled by the moon, highs and lows in a pattern written in the stars, the bones of the universe are stamped with this truth of change and consistency and the curves of life

do you float in the waves, rise and lower with the tides, an invisible thread from your ribcage to the stars, the fishing line of the boy in the moon

or do you swim, fight through the currents, set your rudder, set your course to the stars and let the wind take you like it catches the wings of a gull, of a kite, lit with fire through the sky, a shooting star

vast vast expanses

the deeps of the deep

lakes and oceans and heavy dark nights full of stars and all the unsaid words

where are you

answered with

where are you

questions and thoughts and eyelashes catch in a honey coated throat

holy sacred ground

remove your shoes

fall to your knees

as the gravity of the earth flips, hold yourself down, lest you fall into the stars

crickets and grasshoppers sing with angels

where are you

answered with

i am here

where are you