I feel you in the silence between breaths in the hollow ache that has no name. Though we have not met, my soul leans toward yours, as if it remembers a promise made before this life.
You move with the moon somewhere beyond my sight, with a heart learning the language of devotion, patience, and trust. While I move with faith, with longing, with a love that has nowhere to land—yet.
Do you know there are nights I yearn for you, tears rising like tides I cannot hold back? I whisper to the universe, find him, and something divine answers softly, he is on his way.
Still, I wait, often to no avail, in sadness, in pain, hoping only that your path will one day cross with mine.
Time moves cruelly slow, each moment a reminder of your absence, while my heart learns the weight of longing by heart. Yet, when we do meet, I know it will be sacred. Not a grandiose spark, but a recognition- two souls exhaling after lifetimes of waiting, two hearts remembering why they chose this life.
Until then, my beloved, crab man, know- I carry you in my prayers, in my body, in my becoming. And that, I am longing for you across time and stars, loving you eons before your arms know my name.
Also know this— my unseen crab— I am believing in you, choosing you, even before the moon has touched your soul with mine. Still, I wait- quietly, confidently, hoping that when the moment comes, we will step into it without fear, without doubt. With belief in only the gentle truth of here you are, here I am, and the long journey home will end in us.
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia