Gentle Drifting

Spring Blizzard 2003, 8' 3" of Snow Before It Ended.

 

Drifting
the way snow does
over Earth’s bones, trees
- -vast ocean
crystalline emotion.
Cornices curl
with the wind-blown night- -
stormy seas of unflawed white.
Love is like this drifting.
Wafting feathers- -
my love drifts
crystalline emotion
over you- -against you,
into the vast expanse
of your star bright heart- -
drifting- -drifting back,
returning love to me.

It’s all a gentle drifting- -
love and winter.

Copyright 2010, by Suzie Ashby.
Photograph, Personal Photo, Copyright 2010,
by Suzie Ashby.

Where This Could Go

Your soul- -my refuge
we’ve weathered my chaos- -
a deluge of loss, gain loss.
Time- -only time nothing more.
We meld as one- -water colors           
free in the rain- -fluid, brilliant- -
stirring of hearts, stirring
in this mobius continuum- -
dusks, dawns, warm- -cold.
You always hold me,
a peach blossom in your hand- -
softly, sweetly
despite things I do.
Our gentle drifting in you
an eternal thing.
Your eyes- -the unending sky,
you- -the expanse of starts
cradling me- -tenderly.
Safe- -this massive refuge of you.
We know
where this could go- -love- -
getting there is the journey
two hearts take- -searching
for the calm.
we’ve settled
in this fluid painting- -
water colors in the rain- -
absorbing the dusks and dawns,
burning red on the horizon
of our stirring.

Copyright 2010, by Suzie Ashby.