Everything is Care
A poem
Mouth up to the fire Mouth upon the feast Hold me like you’d bury me In everything sung sweet Tell me like the lake How placid I can be Make me like a bed Open, fallow, seen Rise me like bet Raise me like a pace Keep me like a bird Open handed safe Afraid as you are, say it anyway Anyhow, not knowing now Just where to keep my faith See if you can scare me all the way into the sky Blind and bind and find us there Or sew me in your eyes Billow like a rage Fellow with me here Basic like the dirt Basic like the air Everything is care To be here on our own Hand, lap and tenderness Now let it come undone