Black ink and sunbeams poetry

Exile, before exile, kindness your treasure, rejected before the sacrificial stones, left you with nothing, sorrow, reticent, swallows those things you build up from yesterday, your life, worthless to you, finds a home upon your page, Exile, far from home, in your becoming, collect another curse, joy, a stranger, passes by, your life, ephemeral another…

Resentment, taking root bores itself, a grudge into your belly your kindness, slandered branching out, becomes a willow, the willow, sundered, turns to stone, you, stone-hearted, spill your rage into the sable light, you, grieving, drink a sorrow so sharp, it takes your breath away

Babel, catching fire, fans the flames, fury, keening, tears it down, stone by stone, the exile alone, shelters the capstone, you, mired in misery, spill out, the full breadth of your soul, you, constrained, cleave yourself free, you, cloven, stand, stagger and fall the capstone, enduring bears witness

Frost-fallen like stars upon the window the rose climbs between pages no more itself without its thorns than you are or I for when Autumn sheds its leaves and the river turns to stone, we, shaken free our fate, carry on our way

Exile, footprints washed away, your heart bucks, shudders and breaks exile, laden down, your dream folds upon a seam, love, firstborn, its perdition chains you down the future, unfolding, retains your memory, the future, refracted remembers you perhaps, when resentment consumes its remedy and your curse, mature, sheds you, a chrysalis, even you, exile, twice…

Gold-leafed, your refuge, closed to you, trails behind you, your heart, broken, mends itself of yesterday my heart, laden down, trails behind me, my refuge, closed to me, opens its doors to you, you, trailing behind, wrap your hands around my scattered pieces, drawn out, close to you, the future, unfolding, factures along your fingertips,…

Wolf-shard, piercing, sorrow breaks bread at our table frost-shard, rending, you, betrayed, having lost it all, find yourself, threshed out, dreaming my love, the world-shard shudders beneath our feet, the Exile, weighed down, too understands the weight of a soul, you, weighed down, remember

Collector of misshapen hearts manifestation of your madness condense like spite upon the windowsill, trespasses of mind and body find themselves crosshatched, residing before absent gods we, outlasting them all, serve witness, you, outlasting us all, alone, serve to witness, your flint-shapen becoming

Stowaway fled alongside April sever the spiral that which escaped the threshing floor, thrice reconciled and made manifest before a convergence of fortune and fate imposes itself once more you, flower of my heart, shelter our rose, you, inviolable, resist