Time only haunts you once
hardened in amber the fly immortal
a draft to whisk away sorrow, in our lives we sleep on our hope
for to survive you must look to your dreams
dancing behind double glass, she turns at the sound
seeing the one whom she loves, watching her perpetual motion
until that broken moment and the dance halts on blackened soles
unexpectedly and predicted both
like the slung free fall of an arrow will surely pierce
even armor, given right trajectory
past emotions fall imprecise from curling branches
the corridor in your mind takes a step on mustard carpet
all hushed by sway of time, leaching her bounty
youthful enough to crane perfect neck against marble bath
arching, pleasure, the slow tickle of absence like a flutist
produces from silvered mouth, the breath of music
a chance of rain sound-proofing slip of movement
time only haunts you once
prisoner of the war of words said and not
til I let you go, once and for all, softly the first
forever it felt, walking out the door
steel beneath my own terms
shaking like bakers
raising their dough before it is morning
and you
never who you were
growing wings
stepping from edges
floured hands
pressed together
leaving imprint
where no scouring can chase
the outline you made
Whisper and the Roar 