Beyond Words

..all the letters of every word on every page of every book sing like a siren on an uncloudy day, a song called your name.

confirms suspicions something real sleeps just beyond reach, left behind in the ashes of a tree on some long ago beach and swallowed by the waters of memory flowing onward until we find our way back to where we are perfectly imperfect enough to remember again.

drunk on words with dreams of fever and rain in the river down for the rising

it's your voice i hear my darling dear

at the dawning of the day at the dimming of the light

whispered through remember

tomorrow…