sleep was the only sanctuary, was a flower on the water, was the moonlit ripples as night gathered her stars and her promises, her indigos and golds. i wasn't sure where the images would take me, i could not surrender to them, or they to me, my soul wrapped memories into clouds, drifted with them and the sadness that was the poetry today was a song with so many myriads of water. the water that filled with longing, the water that poured into love.
from my book "and then i returned to you, you my poet of the water."