Within the Rise of Restless Rumors

silent the color of song
within noise its sleepless sound
flutters black birds
recollecting white warbles
of winter's flute
within the rise of restless rumors
spring repeats its seed

drought's river is a slight shiver
moaning murmur without hue

black birds fly off into a bleak sunset

.

to lost love
this sobbing saxophone
into night's cobalt blue
its tentative shivers
fade

mourning
turns to music

a skeleton -- metal cased --
will never hold the children of his children
his honoris crux ribbed into the cavity
from which his heart was ripped

centuries echo
and red-crowned cranes
tremble
behind my breastbone

.

linked by willingness
lives become a libretto
of love

.