By Mikki Williams

penitent and rising

the dawn besets

itself

in vagrant shadows

 

some vacant whisper

some long forgotten recollect

 

insinuates the distance

 

(wherein)

 

a bellowed crossing

 

replete and longing

cavernous and reaching

 

echoed

&

reverent

scatters

maternal

 

 

and here,

there is..

 

some ancient hollow

saturated in wisdom and neglect

 

benevolent and rich

porous and empty

 

yet filled to comprehension

 

and we,

and they,

are

drowning & reborn

in the midst