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Deborah Finch

                 

Love Hum

Small, golden bees
dart from your brown eyes,
surge into a vortex

humming inside my skull.
I am feathery motion,
a collapsing of molecules

flying like sparks
across your beardless cheek.
My words fill with pollen

and sap, they pluck
like sticky fingers
at what I know of you.

Love, love, bonehook
lodged in an eddy of my heart.
I swim softly, gills wide.
You smile, and I surf
into a seaweed circle
of salt air and emerald waves.

I have lost my tongue
like a wondering child,
I am captured by you,

brown sparrow,
as you sing softly, clinging
to a twig in the undergrowth,

then touch ground,
knowing the way of everyday,
flying in shadows of cliff and pine.


Copyright © 2000 Deborah Finch.

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