From a book in progress, "Riding the Absolute."

WHEN I DREAM

-- for Marrianne

Life is all one piece
like unsplit granite &
I have the heart of a Minister
& the head. Faith is a little
thing -- about like this -- but
I am HUGE with it.

When I dream I dream
of you dreaming of me
dreaming of you, soaked
in the cataclysm of
thunderous, hammering
delectable need.

You swell around me
like Faith -- and I in you
huge as a whale's heart
dreaming, I said dreaming,
of pink isolated flowers
& truth. Believe it

or not:
We are the embrace
of vines.

O, you!

I could walk
a highwire swaying in 70
mile an hour winds, high
above Niagara, my internal
gyroscope is so intact.