you stir and i respond…

(June 2021. Written at Shelli’s place in Idyllwild California, a gem of SoCal with the biggest pinecones you’ve ever seen. Written while cradling my sleeping puppy in my arms after coming down a bit from the acid trip. Added to it later before putting it on my bus walls on the ‘Sympathy’ panel.)

you stir and i respond…
to press upon you tenderly my love,
to bless life and growth like breath on fire,
to wash my hands over you
with so exactly the pressure of god,
as i would want the hands of creation
to wash over me, and put me to sleep…
you stir and i respond…