I love you with all
the days and nights
I have been alone
in the toss of dreams
and wake to find you
suddenly, man, child, twin
beast feasting on contact,
master of words, disciple
of the heart, air of wonder
rushing to the edge
of what is
to look. Your heart is
my long lost, your body
the proof of life,
your mind willing the unknown.
Your mouth flies, torrents of birds
sing to me, your lips my nest.
I barely know you, I know you,
I don’t know anything,
I know more
will come. We have both
known emptiness,
the wilds of solitude,
its strange safety, its blunt face.
We live in the house
of the unexpected. The door
does not close, the windows
hold us with eager eyes
opening. I see you,
a tender blooming,
a thick country of woods
where I have searched
to find you again.
We are the sun and moon
meeting in one sky.
The day and the night pass
and we do not notice.
Between them we tremble
like stars.


for David Meltzer
from House of the Unexpected (Wild Ocean Press)
& ‘Sharing Breath ~ More Love Poems of David Meltzer and Julie Rogers’ (Omerta Publications)